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Artist's Statement:
I work from how my senses react to what I enjoy doing or topics
I am interested in. Often I start with a concept and develop
and modify it according to my inspiration and where the canvas
takes me. I use color to create tension and to move the eye
through the painting. I enjoy working with patterns and shapes
that work together to create interesting visual spaces. I
also enjoy experimenting with paper collage and other materials
and mediums in my paintings and prints. I tend to create what
I call "fantastical" imagery.
Biography:
Pauline Siple has been an associate artist at the Torpedo
Factory Art Center since April 2006. Her home studio is in
Bethesda, Maryland. Pauline received a Bachelors of Fine Arts
degree in Ceramic Sculpture and a Masters of Fine Arts degree
in Art Education from the Maryland Institute College of Art
in Baltimore. She made her own ceramics and sold them at craft
fairs until 1984, when she began working in Career Development
at Universities. While Pauline worked full-time she took painting
classes part-time. When she moved to Munich, Germany with
her husband in 1999, she studied abstract painting with a
recognized local artist and painting became a passion that
she began to pursue full-time. She took painting workshops
with artists in France, Italy, Hungary, and the Bahamas, and
since she returned to the Washington DC area in 2002, she
has studied painting at the Corcoran College of Art and the
Alexandria Art League, and printmaking at Pyramid Atlantic
and the Alexandria Art League. Pauline's work has been exhibited
in a nationally televised international art show in New Delhi,
and in a variety of juried and other shows in Washington DC,
Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
Prices range from $325 to $1500
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