My art is about exploring and experiencing what I feel while I work and watching how responses to feelings influence the way I make a painting. The challenge is to allow the work to be driven as much as possible by the observation of what goes on internally rather than discursive thought. Allowing the thinking process of making comparisons and trying to avoid dealing with fears about how others will judge me and my work smothers my creative energy. Noticing the differences between getting caught up in this fear and keeping my attention on my private responses while I work is a source of energy, freedom and inspiration that supports me as I explore. I respond to the visual stimuli while I create thus avoiding the pitfall of making judgements about whether they are 'good' or 'bad'.
The energies have a quality like that of air currents in slow motion and can be the source of ideas I choose to explore. These ideas are like specks of light or dust that have a life lasting no more than a nanosecond. But this brief life is more than enough to drive me to act. These energies are not at all graspable or definable and I can only claim that what I am referencing is what I notice going on within. Observing these goings on in a 'witness' state and responding through applying paint, charcoal, graphite and other media is my intention. Attempting to capture and express these energies as concrete physical objects may be possible or no more possible than capturing the sounds that escape from our lips after we have spoken words. I see what I am doing as being closer to recording as in audio recording than to making an object.
For the observer who apprehends it, these pieces may invite you into a silent communion. Without asking that you see any 'thing' I hope that you, the observer, will fully realize the presence of the work itself and perhaps be moved to reflect on the psychic energies within you.
A Saturn Return is the periodic return of the planet Saturn to the position it was in at the time of one's birth. This occurs every 27 to 30 years around ages 27-30, 57-60, 87-90.
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'The Gateless Gate' 2011 Oil on canvas approx. 60" x 60"
from the Interior Landscapes series by Beth Redmond Walsh |
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Saturn Return 'Time of Reflection' 2012 Oil on Canvas approx. 36" x 42" from the series Interior Landscapes
by Beth Redmond Walsh
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Saturn Return 2011 Oil on Canvas approx 36" x 42" from the series
Interior Landscapes by Beth Redmond Walsh
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