Karen Tamminga-Paton

from the studio..

I paint to think, to still my world and to celebrate it. I love the process of making a piece even more than the final product, so time in my studio becomes like an active journal, my visual meanderings as I put to canvas my ideas, impressions, and stories. Some evolve into pieces that remain; some never become more than the event of mark-making itself. The images I paint are drawn from my life as it unfolds, not so much what I see, but what I feel and wonder about. As a result, my work has a narrative quality. I enjoy working with visual metaphors to create meaning. And I thoroughly enjoy the questions we pose to one another as part of the dialogue between viewer, the art and the artist. Here's to keeping the discourse going...

Each One By Name, 2011 (detail)