Kristine Paton is technically skilled. No where is this more evident than in her highly realistic paintings or her soft impressions of the surrounding landscape. As one art critic recently wrote, “…looking at her work is like walking down a windowed hallway; the view through each window takes us to a different place and time. Such variety is rarely seen from one heart’s hand.” And now this heart has turned her hand to the more abstract.
“This series is really an adventure and although I begin each piece with an initial concept, a leaping in layer (and what a leap that can be), I let each successive layer be dictated by the previous. As for colour, I’m definitely an intuitive painter using or mixing what my hand reaches for automatically. It has taken me several years to trust this process but it definitely works for me now just as it did for Picasso who said back in 1935, “A picture is not thought out and settled before hand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it.” Each new painting stops when I can stand back and feel it whisper enough, knowing that what longed to be created has finally arrived on the canvas and I was able to get out of the way and let that happen.”
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