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Studio
Painting is a constant exploration for me. I begin every day by diving
into the sources of inspiration that keep my paintbrush moving. In traveling
and everyday life, I keep a big notebook and continually sketch and make
notations on color, light, materials, and ideas. Several paintings are in
progress in my studio any given time. I like to work in series, and ideas
for work that may be two years in the future are already waiting like seeds
about to burst.
My main passion always stems from drawing. I like to work out ideas with
charcoal on paper. Often, a drawing becomes an entity in itself, but I also
use them as starting points for paintings, or directly in collages. Monoprinting
too keeps a spontaneity in the use of paint, with the paper surface being
so receptive and textures coming alive before my eyes. Another passionate
part of art making for me is touch, and the physicality of paint, whether
the brush is moving gently to form soft clouds, or pushing the paint around
with whole-body movements that are wild and frenetic like summer grass in
the wind. When art making is at its most alive, I am immersed in heightened
sensitivity to color, light, movement and the music of a painting.
Betsy Bauer, Santa Fe, 2006
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