Artist Sally Wille
Artwork
Artist Interview
Color wets my appetite to paint. The light cast over landscapes inspires me. This inspiration also comes from childhood memories spent in the outdoors on lakes, beaches and farms.
Today in my painting practice, I work on ‘composed landscapes’ in nature from memory, imagination, and photos in the studio. I use watercolor and gouache (an opaque water based paint) to recreate landscapes with the help of emotion provoked in me. I simplify the composition into broad zones or swaths of intensified color. This, I believe, results in abstractions of nature and gives the landscape distinctive character.
Currently I have been drawn to painting a drone’s view or arial views of landscapes. I exaggerate with color and shape and distort the image slightly. I still want the painting to be somewhat recognizable, perhaps not at first. However as you view it, it begins to make sense.
The vivid sunsets, quiet stillness or unnaturally bright green grass heightens the mood of my abstracted and composed landscapes.
In Leelanau County my work can be seen at Synchronicity Gallery, Glen Arbor, MI synchronicityartgallery.com
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Today in my painting practice, I work on ‘composed landscapes’ in nature from memory, imagination, and photos in the studio. I use watercolor and gouache (an opaque water based paint) to recreate landscapes with the help of emotion provoked in me. I simplify the composition into broad zones or swaths of intensified color. This, I believe, results in abstractions of nature and gives the landscape distinctive character.
Currently I have been drawn to painting a drone’s view or arial views of landscapes. I exaggerate with color and shape and distort the image slightly. I still want the painting to be somewhat recognizable, perhaps not at first. However as you view it, it begins to make sense.
The vivid sunsets, quiet stillness or unnaturally bright green grass heightens the mood of my abstracted and composed landscapes.
In Leelanau County my work can be seen at Synchronicity Gallery, Glen Arbor, MI synchronicityartgallery.com
*Also follow on Facebook and Instagram