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Sunspot - oil on canvas. 62"x
32"
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Kalahari Storm - oil on canvas.
48" x 60"
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Orange Crush - oil on canvas.
30" x 40"
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Where do the paintings come from?
Years of outdoor landscape painting and
figure drawing have given Joyce McCarten a rich painting vocabulary
which she uses to develop her oil and mixed media paintings.
Through observation, interpretation, experimentation and pure
imagination, she takes the familiar and alters it until it
reflects her artistic vision. But, where does the vision come
from?
Throughout her painting career, the vision
has always come from the land. McCarten has traveled widely
in the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia and always carts along
her portable easel and oil paints to record the sensations
that speak to her own sensitivities. The wheat fields and
mountains of Montana, the red dusty roads of Africa, Italy's
Cinque Terre, the lavender fields of Provence, the red doors
of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the ochre fields of Rousillon,
France, are some of the places that have inspired her abstract
paintings.
Lately, favorite objects and texts have
re-entered McCarten's work. Her newest paintings are filled
with the forms she loves: cups and bowls, Italian trees -
and pears. And favorite sayings, like "Don't Postpone
Joy" are meant for her own encouragement as well as for
the public. Long-treasured pieces of metal and collected papers
are now being included in these works. Using mixed media along
with paint, McCarten is able to create paintings that are
more than she could originally imagine, but are exactly what
she wanted to say.
Joyce McCarten is the 2008 Torpedo
Factory Artist of the Year, awarded by the Friends
of the Torpedo Factory Art Center.
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