Debra Yoo / Landscapes
I consider painting a landscape a juggling act. The intense light and singular natural forms of the Maine landscape can be operatic in their drama. I am continually amazed at how a combination of the same elements of rocks, water, trees, and sky can be so profoundly different from location to location. For me an overly broad generalization of form or color can lose the singularity of each place, so I use color that relates specifically to what I am observing. The color may change over the course of the painting so that only a particular kind of intensity remains, but I always bring the painting back to be the place where I am. What engages and fascinates me as well are compositional relationships that develop as I am painting and are only fully apparent to me when it is finished.
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