Sharon Rosa Seymour BA hons Fine Art
My Artwork
Nature provides a discursive role in the imaginative development of my work, and it is important to stress that, despite the formal associations, I am by no means a literal artist.
The creative process begins with the discipline of drawing that could only be describe as 'warming up'. After a unique event or a spontaneous thought, it is out of the qualities of line, mark making, texture and paint that ideas, feelings and images frequently evolve. My paintings are never willed or programmed systematically, I often begin with an indeterminate vision and the content and narrative emerge slowly and unconsciously though the drawing and painting process and the accumulation and free association of ideas and moods.
I strive to create a language without words: a visual poem that is understood on an intuitive level, I want my work not only to speak about the final image but also about the paint and traces of the process. The evidence of the activity is what builds a personal history between the picture and me.
In all my final images the process of finding the 'right' marks placed in the right place, in the right way, at the time, remains a mystery. Sometimes the process happens by accident yet other times it seems preordained. when I'm too serious, too playful or if I try to repeat a past success, I miss it so I have to start artwork innocently: " the mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities,"~~Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryn Suzuki.