Oil Painting
Studio #21
Kings Point Rd Studio
307 King’s Point Road
+Handicapped Access
mollypreston.com
Molly.preston41@gmail.com
(206) 550-8302
Painting allows me to filter the worlds pain through the lens of abstraction. I begin with reality and eliminate it bit by bit until I find a small safe place. There the viewer may stop, rest and experience joy before returning to her frantic world.
My work for the past twenty years has explored the limitless possibilities of color. Both in expressionistic landscapes and abstracts, color reigns. Occasionally high key, but often foiled by gray. I may begin with a grid, a landscape, or even a painting I have abandoned. Deconstructing the underlying imagery creates transitional areas, each gesture demands a response. Shapes interrupt lines and tonalities create tension. Many revisions later I walk away. Returning days,months, or years later the conversation resumes and often the painting is quickly resolved. My paintings feel like living things requiring my attendance, so much that it is only when I no longer own them that I am able to let them be. Then its time for the viewer to begin the conversation.