![Painting, Embrace 04, Darlene Watson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045724_1_s.jpg)
by Darlene Watson
Painting : acrylic
121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
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Medium
Painting: acrylic
Dimensions cm • inch
121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch Height x Width x Depth
Framing
Not framed
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: Canada
The ocean floor flooded a boardwalk shop and the taffy was soaked in the sea foam. During the cleanup, someone asked if there was some taffy for sale and a joke was spoken that we have some salt water taffy. She took it to the beach to share with her friends and the rest is history.
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Zatista Contemporary & Fine Art • United States
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![Darlene Watson, Sassy As Salt Water Taffy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas Darlene Watson, Sassy As Salt Water Taffy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1814658_1_l.jpg)
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Artist Statement:
“Abstraction in a painting is the emotional creative thoughts, ideas and hues positioned to initiate conversation and invite you to the artist’s heart”
Not all stories are written with words...
Darlene Watson is a painter that speaks with colour, shape and lines. Abstract, bold, and powerful can be used to describe her style. She is an expressive and gestural painter with neutrals or a fearless colour palette.
With each of her paintings, the titles and the layers, you are welcomed into her world as she tells her story. Many of her originals are large-scale and vibrant. Bold thick acrylic in some areas with layers of complementary hues or hues that surprise you when they are side by side.
You find yourself drawn into the art and its story and smile with the boldness of some of the colours she uses.
Her artwork can be found internationally in private or corporate collections.
Education:
Self-taught artist
Exhibitions:
Moniker Gallery Toronto 2013
Tag Gallery St. Catherines 2013
Port Huron Art Crawl 2013
Weavers Art Toronto - paintings inspired carpets 2013
McMaster Innovation Park juried Art Show 2014
De Stefano's Ristorante, Gallery Oakville 2014
Guelph Studio Tour Guelph 2014
Red Door Gallery, Georgetown 2015
Artistic Influences:
HER INSPIRATION
Of course living so close to a body of water the turquoise and deep blues, greens and neutrals of the sand, beach and trails are part of the inspiration for the artist’s paintings.
Darlene’s paintings are also pulled from her gardens and love of soft pinks in Peonies and the boldness of Clematis. Autumn crinkled leaf hues noticed on her walks are also part of a painting at some point. She gathers all of these ideas shapes of stones, ripples of the lake, cloud hues with violets and purples and of course the sunsets in her area. The golds and orange from sunsets and the deep forest leaf greens, and crimson are all part of her repertoire.
Colours, shapes and lines are often gathered from fashion to integrate later.
HER TECHNIQUE
There can be many layers of acrylics with ink, pen, pencil, charcoal and tea or coffee-stained print added to a mixed media creation of the artist. The majority of her paintings are acrylic with layers of swirls or brush strokes with various brush sizes and sometimes the artist’s hands or palms. Each of these movements adds to the growing depth of the work and the hidden illegible script or notes that sometimes are in the graffiti style that she often uses. With each of her paintings, the titles and the layers, you are welcomed into her world as she tells her story. Many of her originals are large-scale and vibrant. Bold thick acrylic in some areas with layers of complementary hues or hues that surprise you when they are side by side.
You find yourself drawn into the art and its story and smile with the boldness of some of the colours she uses.
Tags:
abstract expressionistic, abstract artist, modern art, contemporary artist, canadianartist, colourful
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