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20251104_132558.mp4 Cate and CHK This is one of my more recent paintings 2024?I went to art school in the late 1970s?and lived in Chicago and then New York.I?was a printmaker and a performance artist and also did photography.?When I?was older that I started painting.?I had learned in school?how to draw and paint in the classical way. But I fell into was to do abstract painting later in my career.? The paintings start by themselves without a specific idea, but I may have a particular palette to work with.?And the idea sometimes comes with the painting later when complete. This on entitled it Music.?There's another painting here.?It was at the beginning of the war in the Ukraine.?I was very upset about what was happening. I did this painting not knowing?that my feelings about the war?and the attack from Russia and the people of Ukraine would come out in this painting.?But it did.? It is an acrylic painting on canvas.You can see the figures of war.You can see that there are some figures of faces in stress?and the landscape, both beautiful and destroyed.So this one tells more of a story,?an?abstraction of feeling. The painting started by itself. I did not draw it out in advance.?I did not decide exactly what it's about, but I moved with the abstract from the feeling or the thought?that I want to express in the painting.? This was painted during the Ukraine war 2022.? And this one "Music was more recently, 2024.This painting also was just a feeling,?and it was worked?and reworked with many layers.And when the painting was finished, my husband looked at it and he said "Insee music I see the musicians, I see the music,I see the movement of the music." Expressing in?abstract painting is something that many people do,?but sometimes it's good to have skill in art and how to draw!and a background in art history and art in order to really understand what your abstract painting is about. CHK?So you are trying like this bigger size and smaller size.?Yes, and I do the smaller pieces?usually in a series of three.In acrylic and in cold wax?with oil paint. These again are abstract.They've had many, many layers. I often to sell small paintings?because?people live in smaller homes?and they want to be able to have paintings they can move around easily.They can put on a bookshelf.?They can have any place or give as a gift.?And there are a lot of fun to do and Inget many ideas from them?and then some turn out well and I put a frame on.Or they become an idea for a bigger painting. So your abstract art is very,?the more look, the more interesting. Yes.I think that when you first look,?you see color and shape, but you don't know what it is. But the more you look at the painting,?I feel that the painting tells you what it wants to?say?for the viewer, because I know when I'm painting,?the painting tells me what it wants to say.?So I hope that for people that see the paintings?that they too can have their own interpretation. CHK?So could you tell me about your artist background?born in America and living in Australia??What is different and when creating your art, and living different places,like ?Mexico? Yes, I only lived in the United States till I was 30 years old.Now?I've lived in Australia and in Mexico, two very different countries.?But growing up in the US,I?do think that it did have a big influence on me because of the art movements of the expressionists, the abstract expressionists,?and?different modes of art that came on in the 1960s and 70s and also into the 80s.?And I think I was much more aware of the art movements?and having an art, getting an art education. When I moved to Australia, I had to go to work?and I was in work a lot of times,?so I only was making art at night.I wasn't part of an art community.?And after more of my work career ended, I moved to Byron Bay and I've been more in nature.And like Mexico I have an art community here. Today I am much more interested in not trying to control?everything that happens with the work,?but letting the work grow itself.I?like to try and experiment with different mediums and ?keep my skills up in all the areas that I work in.Gratefully I have the time to do that?and?also I'm in a country that is a very safe country?and I don't have the pressures on me?that I see that many of my friends have?living in other countries right now.? Very interesting very much for inviting us?to?enjoy delicious food and wonderful works?and?your beautiful life. 20251104_133241?? Everyone ======================= Both of our families have one son and one daughter. ?Neither plans to have children, leaving our generation without grandchildren. but our lives are good ...like this beautiful view, watching sunsets and birds! We have much happiness at seeing you Chan Han and your wife, Young-Joo. We have followed you for 20 years. We have gratitude to meet again. Thank you for having us. Be happy forever. We will meet again soon. |
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