Studio Discovery Tour
Labor Day weekend & the weekend after
on the Sonoma / Mendocino Coast
September 4 - 6 and 11 - 12, 2010
Artists' studios open 10am - 5pm each day
Denise Otterson - Oils | map #10 → |
"Conversations with Light"
"The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes,
but rather in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
 August Light, 36" x 36" |
Impressionism tries to convey the immediate experience of the painter, not what we are supposed to see, by convention, but what we actually see. Hence, vivid colors, flattened spaces, distorted shapes, and unfamiliar points of view. To the painters of the late nineteenth century, the canons of realistic painting had become tired and unexciting, and had to be overthrown.
Abstraction takes the Impressionist revolution even further, moving away from ordinary reality toward simple forms and pure perception. The paradox of this art is that the farther it moves from the comforting security of the "real," the more it may stimulate strong and lasting emotions. The large, vibrating, amorphous forms and colors of Rothko, Frankenthaler or Motherwell, take us into realms of primitive perception that mirror the deepest appetites of our souls.
 Light on Golden Pond, 36" x 48" |
2009 Galleries & Shows:
- Fine Arts, Etc. Gallery, Sausalito
- Elle-Lui, Santa Rosa, July-August, "Color and Light"
- Intention Center, Gualala, June, "Dim Sum for the Soul"
- The Sea Ranch Lodge, September, "Conversations with Light"
- Thompson Hall, Sausalito, November, "Light on Water"
2010 Galleries & Shows:
- Dolphin Gallery, Gualala
- Mendocino County Arts Council, Ft. Bragg
- John Hanes Gallery, Boonville
- Blue Canoe Café, Anchor Bay, "Our Town"
Wine Dark Sea, 15" x 45"
Lightcatchers, 12" x 36"
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Contact Information:
Denise Otterson
Email: ateliersofia@yahoo.com |