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Sometimes I just like to play with bits and pieces of design. No message other than design and color that just "feels right." I liked the looks of these images together. Very contemporary with straight llines, biomorphic form and strong black and white with just a hint of copper. Unframed but matted with a coppery mat. Perfect for an office accent.
Moon Glow, Monotype on Paper cut and Mounted on Black Mat Board, Unframed, Matted to fit 12 X 9" frame, $60 USD
The library has always been one of my favorite places. As a child, it was an adventure to different parts of the world, people I had never known, and mysteries beyond my fathom. Once I was given a bicycle and learned to ride it, I had wheels to this magical world. Seven miles in and seven miles back with all kinds of mystical thoughts whirling in my brain as a result of what I had read and what I would read in the "new" books in my bicycle basket. It was books from the library that propelled me to new dreams and ultimately to finding a way to leave the confines of my childhood world.
"At the Library," Oil on Canvas,
48" X 36," $3600 USD
This painting represents a lot of different "catalogs in the brain." As in many of my paintings, I just start putting color on canvas and wait for the magic to begin. The magic as a long time in coming for this one. As I reflect on what I painted, I can see Mayan figures, abstracted figure, whimsical balloons, Cy Twombly-like squiggles and a lot of unfinished "thoughts." Such was my being at the time that I painted this.
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"Random Thoughts," Oil on Canvas, 48 X 48," Gallery Wrap, $4800 USD
copyright 2012 Charlotte Shroyer
I love the element of chance in my paintings. Mysterious images appear, as I have said before, almost as if demanding to be seen. These images appeared by chance from blobs of paint. How does chance affect the appearance of images on the canvas? Images from the past? From the present? From contemporary culture? All of the above and more. Every individual is the sum of where he has been, what he has done, what has happened yesterday, today, and thoughts of what might happen tomorrow. Gerhard Richter, whom I respect for a lot of different reasons, speaks of the role of chance in his paintings. In response to a question how chance is different in his work from that of Pollock or Surrealist automatism: "Yes, it certainly is different. Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also surprising. And I need it in order to carry on, in order to eradicate my mistakes, to destroy what I've worked out wrong, to introduce something different and disruptive. I'm often astonished to find how much better chance is than I am." (Richter, The Daily Practice of Painting, 159). I also let chance work in my paintings--chance is much better than I am.
copyright 2012 Charlotte Shroyer
SOLD "Conversation," Monotype with Oil, 3 X 3 1/4"
(image size), framed, $95 USD
I printed this monotype a few years back. As artists do, I kept it in a file ready for the right time. Who knows when the right time is? Perhaps when one looks through the file again. Perhaps when real life triggers memories of the image. Or perhaps...... I only know, the time is right. Don't ask me why. Perhaps it's because I visited New Orleans the week after Mardi Gras. Masks are in the windows of specialty shops. The mystery and magic of Mardi Gras still permeated the streets--the crowds were gone, but the aura remained. This monotype has a magic visible to the viewer. It can be what you want it to be. Enjoy!
Mystery Mask, Monotype on Paper, 5 3/4" X 5" (image size), matted, unframed, $75.00 USD
Copyright charlotte shroyer 2012
Every once in a while, it is good to paint in a different genre. This is the painting that happened when I decided to take a break from the large abstracts which I am painting for a show in PA. Taos Mountain is part of my soul. The longer I live here, the more ingrained it is in my being--its look, its spirit, its pull on its people and those of us who share the land with the Native Americans. This painting is a tribute to the land and its being.
SOLD
copyright charlotteshroyer 2012