Connie Connally

"Sky Birds II" 55" X 72" oil on canvas
Commission portraits available. Please contact the Gallery.

"Dragon In My Yard" 54" X 40" oil on canvas
Commission portraits available. Please contact the Gallery.

Artist's Statement

"CoastLines"

My new hometown of Santa Barbara inspires this body of drawings and paintings. The raw materials for my paintings are the plein-air pastel drawings done along the shorelines, hiking trails, parks and gardens. The expressive abstractions are the emotional and impulsive connection I have made with my newly discovered surroundings on the West Coast.

There is a connection between the language of abstraction and the perception of landscape. My paintings are filled with a fusion of spontaneity, startling color and gestural mark making; giving life to the painted image. My paintings steal the linear polychromatic nature of palms flirting with the vibrant coastal skies, the liquid lines of gardens filled with water lilies or the grisaille calm of the marine layer blanketing the shore. Sometimes the colors and shapes redefine nature, but always seek to reveal its’ spiritual qualities.

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