PAINTING

My painting practice is one of my creative avenues that allow for
absorption into a world of vibrant hues and complex compositions.

• As a contemporary painter, my paintings draw upon many concerns within the realm of abstract painting in the creation of compositions characterized by shapes, colors and patterns. Through painting, I draw from the wells of everyday experiences, letting my intuition and imagination to guide me. My subjects for painting are the landscapes that lie within and for which the painting process makes visible. While compositions are driven by formal concerns and sensory responses to the paint, I remain open to the motifs and symbolic associations that emerge in the painting process.

  In beginning a painting, I often paint linear elements and shapes that gradually become more defined in a rich layering of paint and surface allowing compositions to evolve. The use of pouring medium with paint allows me to explore emerging imagery and motifs and their associations. Such imagery often includes figural, architectural, animal and landscape motifs—and universal and personal themes.

• Transparent layerings of paint also often reveal new forms to pursue. Along the way, refinements are made to the compositions, yet, imperfections often remain, such as, wavering lines and edges, not-so-perfect-shapes, lopsided compositions, and other visual surprises that provide for pleasurable discordances.

  Titles are generated from my intuitive responses to the paintings. While not explanations, titles help to generate associations and contextualize the imagery into a lens for understanding deeper meanings behind the arrangements of color and form.

  VISUAL JOURNALING

• The visual journal is a creative zone to explore the personal/autobiographical and the professional, the intersectional areas of professional practice, to bring artistry into professional practice, and to think in non-linear and intuitive ways about the professional practice.

• The visual journal as a research tool allows for exploring issues and questions related to professional practice using arts-based methods in ways that result in new and unexpected insights, questions and pathways.

• My mixed media visual journals embrace a wide variety of subjects that include everyday life, current issues, professional identity, transitions/change, and dreams.

• © Braided Streams LLC Sheri Klein 2024