Lorna Cole's Artist Statement
My most recent series of abstracts, "Bright and Lively Abstracts", has been amazing and delightful to create. Although I have been working towards pure abstraction for years, these pieces represent my most eye-opening and satisfying work to date. They consist of a huge variety of curvi-linear and/or geometric shapes combined with ever-so-bright colors. When I am working on these paintings in particular, I am in my right side of my brain with time passing extremely quickly, my chronic pain temporarily reduced and my mood changing to optimism and hope.
The introduction of the "arcs" in my abstracts is a nod to the electromagnetic fields of the earth while at the same time serving to tie my paintings together. Many of these paintings have included the pouring of metallics and at least two analogous colors which serves to create either the top or bottom border of the piece. Mark-making is something that I have been learning over the past few years and have really come to fruition in this series. They serve to show my imagination as to what the painting needs to be complete my current self-expression. Another innovation has been the use of metallic paint as gestures in the upper/lower poured edge and the remaining body of the painting. The gestures are the last step before my signature.
I hope that viewers can enjoy these abstracts as much as I enjoyed imagining and creating them.