Kunstwerk: “Bird of Paradise”, available from Bonn's David Galleries
Celebrated Landscape Artist Gail Morris Uses color, emotions and intuition to create evocative contemporary paintings that transport the audience through calm, dreamlike worlds.
Good Art is more than just a picture on a canvas; Good Art is emotional. It gives the audience the feelings and messages of an artist. This phenomenon is a nice example of unspoken human connection. It demonstrates empathy that people have for each other. Artists have this natural ability to represent their experiences or feelings in something beautiful that people appreciate, with and feel. An artist who has an innate ability to grasp the meaning of a moment in her work is Gail Morris.
Morris is an extraordinary contemporary Landscape Artist who has a deep understanding of color. Morris Use this ability to present the feeling A Landscape gave her through the execution of color, shape and emotion.
“I try to keep my work calm and calmly.” Morris says. “Something that will make people feel peaceful.”
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Morris Always had a love Art And grew up as a painting. After a discouraging comment on her college professor, she decided to take a break Art And throw yourself in photography.
“I went to the college to paint and switched my major Art History because my professor said to me: “Gail, you will never make it as an artist. They should teach. '”
Only when she was in Taos, New Mexicothat she decided to get a brush and paint again; It was the beauty of the high -towering mountains in the middle of the huge plateaus that inspired them. Then she knew Art was her true calling and she never looked back.
Kunstwerk: “Le Fromage”, available from Bonn's David Galleries.
Kunstwerk: “Palm Beach”, available from Bonn's David Galleries
After he had traveled around the world and worked with legendary artists such as Mark Rothko, Russell Chatham, Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Dädchkorn, Morris' Cup of inspiration is never empty. She is strongly influenced by her travels and is best known for her ability to capture a moment and a place by a contemporary lens.
“All of my pictures started somewhere” Morris says. “They come from the high desert, foggy wetlands or even from an airplane.”
Morris Is intuitively with yourself and allows feelings to determine the process of creation for you, from the selection of the topic to knowing when a brush is to be discontinued.
“I just have one feeling,” she says of her process to choose a topic for her piece. “The same thing happens when I know that a piece is finished. I'll take a step back and just know that it is finished. I don't think about it.”
The complex color display in Morris' The work is almost spectacular, with colored and subtle layers of color, so that the viewer can stare at work for hours and still can be observed. “I start with the Horizon line”, ” Morris explained. “From this point on, I move into the color, I consider myself as a colorist and that's what she rises. I love to put on color and put it with a rag or sponge. I like putting on things and putting on or scraping it off. I build the painting through this process, so if the gallery gets the finished piece, it is actually quite thin.”
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Kunstwerk: “Banasari”, available from Bonn's David Galleries
The development of her work throughout her career led her painting In an impressionist direction. “I just started doing mine Landscape Paintings where they were still identifiable but were a bit dissolving. The many workshops that I did with Wolf Kahn, who was such an amazing teacher and Landscape Painter, definitely my work softer, less graphic. ”
In your most recent exhibition at Bonn David Galleriesdem Morris Has worked closely with you for more than 20 years and developed your work by using pastel colors and not the earthy tones to which it is normally attracted. “My colors when I started were always super brave and bright when I drove more and saw more fog and rain, they made themselves a little softer.” Morris says. “I am very happy about this show because it is more about color. I love to vibrate colors in my work and put different and sometimes contrasting colors side by side to create some tension and vibration.”
Kunstwerk: “Côte d'Azur”, available from Bonn's David Galleries
Morris is a visionary artist and an excellent example of how it can lead to a life full of purpose, love, creation and success if they pursue their passions regardless of the opinions of others. Her work continues to inspire the patrons worldwide and remind us to take a moment to pause the chaos of our everyday life and to enjoy the precious and fleeting moments that we have on this breathtaking earth.