New to Artclectic
USN parent '29, '31, '34
“Art is play,” begins Catherine Aptorp. “It is the tension of a line, the composition or splash of color that creates a story and leads our eyes across a canvas. The viewer fills in their own script.”
Catherine uses acrylic paint and gallery wrapped canvas to create large or small abstract and figurative paintings, layered with inspiration on bits of paper, scribbled in charcoal, ink and water color.
“Finishing a new piece is a journey from simple observation to appreciation through play as abstract feelings, figurative still life and nature scapes. It is the process of growing beyond a self-propelled emotion to a universal place of appreciation worth sharing. I hope to recall the human experience, suspended in quiet, fleeting moments. May we there find our common humanity and feel relevant in this wild world.”
Sometimes I am free and light. I see sparkle and hope. Sometimes I am methodical and pedantic to fill routine duties; we know the world is hard. I want to keep ahold of a sense of discovery, like a child filled with wonder, seeing things for the first time. While I can't have that all the time, the snapshot that is a finished piece is a reminder of that the flint is there and to be shared. It is a marker of humanity.
It should have the right balance of tension and shape, like a good book or movie. Sometimes I like a resolved ending, and sometimes a dangling finish is required! I know I'm done when I can walk away.
Oh gosh. I'm currently traveling across Ireland and am obsessed with rock formations, juxtaposed against open seas and endless skies. I love natural beauty and am in awe of the next place. That is the current vibe, but my regular haunts around Percy Warner Park and Center Hill Lake are familiar and constant in their evolution. So many emotions have been worked out on those trails.
