ARTIST STATEMENT

"To the Light" 16"x20" acrylic on canvas, 2009

           
           As a child I was very shy, but observant. I would see patterns in dust particles and spent hours looking at the sunlight streaming through leaves; use a magnifying glass to explore design in snowflakes around seeds -- these were magik to me. My first oil paintings hung in an adult exhibition in the Cocoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.. I was barely 11 years old.

            I continue to explore the ever present patterns, rhythms and frequencies in nature. The ceaseless ebb and flow of life is ever manifesting and creating; cells dancing their great dance separating and  merging into new and greater forms. My growing consciousness of  this life force is constantly expanding and seeking expression through my art.

                                                                    ~ Barbara C. Thomason, August 2011

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