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Liz Winchester-Larson
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Drops from Alyson's Orchard
Colored Pencil, 8" x 16" |
| Artist Statement |
| When I was a child, we went to Old Sturbridge Village. There, in one of the houses, was a woman giving a demonstration on the Art of Theorem Painting. Round juicy plums came out of her brush like magic, I was hooked. Now, I'm in love with "stuff", I go to the grocery store, into the produce department, bins piled high with fruit and vegetables, a riot of color and form, each one an individual. Look at the pears on display today!! Holding a pear, turning it over and over, feeling its form, observing the angle of its stem, looking for the perfect representation of "pear-ness", the excitement and satisfaction of finding that just right object. It becomes more than fruit, more than a special teapot, more than the right fabric for the backdrop. Still-life surrounds me, the tea kettle on my stove, plants on my window sill, all saying; "Draw me, no me, draw me first!" Technique: My preferred medium is colored pencil, layers and layers of colored pencil. Sitting directly in front of my still-life set-up, I work slowly; get up, stand back, look and squint, add more layers, like painting with tiny brushes, pushing pigment into paper, burnishing the wax base pencil to a satin sheen. Through repetition, what is linear becomes solid form, an optical illusion. Patience is a virtue in the colored pencil medium. The only pencils I use are those that have met the lightfastness standards of the Colored Pencil Society of America. More information is on their web-site, cpsa.org and also the chapter web-site, cpsa112.org Recent Exhibitions: 2006 "Apples", New England Colored Pencil Society with the Monadnock Apple Growers Association, Jaffery Civic Center, Jaffery, NH "Constant Variables", still-life theme shows with Nicole Caulfield and Colette Lucas, Miller Art Center, Springfield, VT and Hancock Town Library, Hancock, NH "Out of the Box - Colored Pencil as a Fine Art Medium", juried show featuring selected artists from New England, Mclninch Gallery, Southern NH University, Manchester, NH 2006 & 2005 "Sister Art" and "Sister Art II", with Harriet Winchester (pastel), Peterborough and Hancock Town Libraries 2005 Thorne-Sagendorf Gallery Regional Biennial, Keene State College, Keene, NH Fitchburg Art Museum, 70th Annual Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg, MA 2004 Northeast Regional Juried Colored Pencil Exhibition, Sharon Arts Center Gallery, Peterborough, NH Publication: American Artist Magazine September 1999, "Block Printing Made Easy", Methods and Materials column by Christopher Willard, featuring the linoleum block cutting and printmaking technique of Liz Winchester-Larson Education: BFA, Interior and Environmental Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Memberships: Keene Art Association, Colored Pencil Society of America and the CPSA District Chapter 112 Sharon Arts Center |
| E-Mail: lizart39@yahoo.com |
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