Louise Gray

E-Mail: louise.gray@comcast.net

After many years of teaching art in the public schools, and painting watercolor landscapes, I felt the desire to explore non-representational work. Abstract painting greatly enhances the freedom to explore color, form and texture – as a direct medium of expression, unhampered by the demands of representational forms. There are no recognizable images. In that sense the piece is more about paint than a subject. The viewer is free to bring anything he wants to the painting.

I seek a balance of light and dark, negative and positive, strong gesture and delicate line. Often I will layer colors and textures, scratching through to see what lies beneath. Spattering, stroking, lifting ,rubbing , dripping –sometimes incorporating various papers, I believe that it is finished when it works as a painting.

Safari, Acrylic on Canvas, 24x24	Last Light, Acrylic on Canvas, 24x24
Migration, Acrylic on Canvas, 30x40	Burgundy Thoughts, Acrylic on Canvas, 24x30