V Rae
(Vicki Rae Prewitt) |
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Thanks, so much, for visiting my site. I grew up in the Western Montana wilderness and majored in the Arts at Boise State University. My early exhibition work was influenced by the colorful texture of Southwest Native life and culture. I presented in detailed earth dye and watercolor on substrates ranging from paper and wood, to Buffalo hide. I painted between the lines until 1991, when I moved to Alaska and discovered I couldn’t squeeze the land and people between the lines of my stylistic comfort zone. In time my passion for Alaska exploded in colorful expressions that trample my canvas and stalk unsuspecting hearts.
Watercolor is the medium that best captures the personality of my work. I paint on canvas that I texture with hand sculpted paper,or Yupo, a synthetic fine art paper. The hand sculpted paper texture on canvas adds dimension and body to the water based pigment and greatly enhances the three-dimensional illusion of a two-dimensional painting. Another illusory emphasis in my paintings is negative (white) space. I simply love negative space. The notion that nothing becomes something only the brain can deduce tickles my conundrum bone.
My more abstract works are direct application of watercolor on Yupo, a slippery synthetic surface that defies conventional technique and plays havoc with the imagination. Painting on Yupo requires a perfectly level surface to control the free flowing movement over slippery surface. It’s extremely difficult to control, but the application results in a deep, rich, more translucent color than conventional watercolor. The downside? If I forget and lift the painting prematurely, I end up paper in hand and portrait on shoes. Painting on Yupo reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel’s old tune Slip Slid’n Away.
I hope you enjoy meeting these personalities as much as I enjoyed painting them.
V Rae
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