Caryl Hull Leavitt
Painting is my way of connecting to what I see and experience. My art is as much observation as it is interpretation.
I see dynamic compositions all around me and respond to them with loose brushstrokes and gestural marks. I favor expression over likeness.
In “ColorSplash” I turn my focus to table top sets up, Dutch flower arrangements and a small urban garden, each a world onto themselves rich in beauty and abundance but equally stiff in their formality, seemingly isolated, and oddly unwelcoming. In my mind, it’s “look but don’t touch.”
I reinterpret these scenes in way that makes sense to me—injecting life into their stillness. Individual flowers, planters, vases, plates, wine goblets, etc., lose their “alone-ness” and morph into a greater whole—a party of color and rhythm with an invitation to come on in and explore.
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Join Caryl for her one day workshop, ‘Tablescape: Observation and Interpretation’ on March 29. More information can be found here.