
Artist at Rebecca Worters Art
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Artist at Rebecca Worters Art
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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Artist Statement
Ever since I was a child, garden paths, spaces and secret nooks have fascinated me. In my art, I try to convey a sense of mystery and beauty all at once. The question I'm always asking is "what's behind that vine or archway or flower? What is hidden?"
I love vibrant colors and the interplay of contrasting colors because it gives a sense of depth--looking beyond what is in the foreground. The motion in my work is very fluid, always capturing and surrounding something. The vibrant colors are a sign of mystery-- what is hidden by the vine or the leaf.
As a child I would escape to my grandparent's garden while the adults visited. A winding stone path beckoned to reveal a dreamlike retreat—soft cool earthen floors with walls of climbing roses—for the moment, my own secret garden. In my art I seek to recapture this place where one understands the security of knowing order exists and is therefore free to imagine it as wild and unknown.
When I paint, I feel free and lose my sense of time – as if in meditation. My inner critic seems to put up its feet for a while and have a nice glass of lemonade. I hope the viewer will be enchanted by my work long enough to drift into timelessness, where chronology is fluid and there is no differentiation between past, now and future.
I try to mimic the beauty of nature at a micro level. I rarely paint expansive landscapes. I love the sense of being enclosed and cloistered by nature and free to look beyond for the mystery that is there.
Past
nonprofit management, recruiting, staffing, executive search, executive transition management, nonprofit recruiting, nonprofit executive search, recruiting fund raisers, recruiting executive directors, higher education searches, hospital searches, searches for fund raisers in religious organizations
painting, jazz, reading, gardening