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STATEMENT OF WORK
The focus of my work shifts between several themes: the atmospheric landscape, the figure as an abstraction of form and color, and the narrative that occurs when the painted figure enters the painted place. After a history of painting the landscape and the figure in interiors, my newest work merges the two, and invites a new narrative into the scene.
Mostly wooded and often dark, the places my figures inhabit are generated from memory and imagination. Reflecting on the Germanic fairy tales of my childhood and mixing it with a dose of my current life in a semi-wooded area of Connecticut, I’ve re-imagined characters and situations from a grown-up perspective. In the past, when painting interior scenes, I have used a piece of furniture to serve as a character. Now, I rely on shapely trees or bodies of water.
Color, light, form and structure are the essential components. They provide limitless compositional and narrative possibilities as I explore new media and new ways of revealing the poetry and mystery in the familiar, visible world.
Lisa Hess Hesselgrave, 2022