Deliberate obliteration, simplification, scraping away details to reveal an impression. A moment in time in a specific place stays with me, and becomes the kernel of an idea. A remembered landscape held in my heart and mind.
Edward Hopper once said that what he wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. In a similar spirit, I am frequently drawn to architecture in the landscape. Angles emerging, obscured, merging with nature. The delicious tension where land, sea, sky meet. Horizon lines.
Andrew Wyeth talked about his struggle “to preserve that abstract flash like something you caught out of the corner of your eye” and on numerous occasions called himself an abstract artist. This speaks to my approach … and struggle. I frequently move from one painting to another, from one genre to another. Small touches, glancing flicks of paint, scraping away details in the hopes that what remains, provides a personal interrupted realism.
Blurred, as if in motion. Passing by. There is a leap of faith in obliterating details, simplifying, scrubbing away the paint. Listening to my heart and being in the moment.
I am moved by the works of Hopper, Diebenkorn, Wolf Kahn, Morandi, Bonnard, Vuillard, Andrew Wyeth, Cezanne, Fairfield Porter, Edwin Dickinson …. to name a few.
EDUCATION
Smith College, Northampton, MA, B.A., Studio Art 1975-1979
Ariane is an an active member in various art associations in New England including the Lyme Art Association, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, West Hartford Art League (all CT) and the Rockport Art Association (MA). She recently moved to a small historic town in Shenandoah Valley and will splits her time between Connecticut and Virginia.