CHERI COULTER 

My work is about discovery in visual form.  It is meditation.  It is process.  It is poetry.     The process is one of exploring with a muse that sometimes has me focus directly on capturing the light and dark of what I see, sometimes it is more about the relationship of balance, harmony and space in a way that has us feel, as much as see, the wonder of  discovering the beauty that surrounds us - capturing moments from our lives that are gifts to us - when we take the time to be with them.  See them.  

 

I have been painting since I was four.  My first painting was an Iris from my mother's garden.   It really looked sort of like an iris. It's beauty captivated me then as it does now - more than six decades later!  What I really wanted to paint was the fragrance - it was ethereal.  I wanted to capture that delicious connection to the earth that I felt the moment I smelled that first iris.  

 

This led me through the years to move between wanting to paint the image of a thing -- and wanting to paint it's energy -- essence -- much like the iris's fragrance. Sometimes this essence comes through more vibrant color and form, light and shadow, sometimes it comes through as abtraction of the thing I am painting.

 

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In all my work, nature and the elements are my guide and muse.

 

Enjoy,

 

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When we are in service to our passion, great things can happen.  May it be so for all of us.