I see my work differently without the traditional frame. My paintings are more like decorative tiles placed to frame the life passing through my home.
About Me
- Diane Widler Wenzel
- The idea for COLOR BRIDGES came from many sources. Portland State College 1962,Professor Frederick Heidel's first painting assignment was to make a grid and explore mixing colors to arrange on the grid to see how they would look. Moving these painted pieces of paper on different backgrounds bring back 4 years of studying painting with Heidel. Each arrangement I have made are like his assignments. They have a goal of basics while allowing the emotions freedom. Another source was Professor Mary MacIntire at Western Washington University who was a member of Fiber Design and I had the honor of photographing for a statement about her process. She used to move around pieces of colored paper to design her fiber works.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Making Progress
I see my work differently without the traditional frame. My paintings are more like decorative tiles placed to frame the life passing through my home.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Navaho Rug Design and I Painting Light
This 12" oil painting is in the beginning stages and remains unfinished even in february 2008.
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Friday, March 17, 2006
The Way I Paint
After one of John Clare's poems
From the first light of dawn until dusk
The fog hides the landscape
Except for a few moments
As the light pierces through
Revealing layers of flat back drops like a stage.
I see the rocks and life damp and dripping.
The colors are at their greatest brilliance.
I take in movement and gesture in an instant.
Just for a moment! The next moment the fog rises from them covering the land
once again.
I begin to paint with the intensity of the moment while the after image
compliments passion.
From the first light of dawn until dusk
The fog hides the landscape
Except for a few moments
As the light pierces through
Revealing layers of flat back drops like a stage.
I see the rocks and life damp and dripping.
The colors are at their greatest brilliance.
I take in movement and gesture in an instant.
Just for a moment! The next moment the fog rises from them covering the land
once again.
I begin to paint with the intensity of the moment while the after image
compliments passion.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
My Dragons Express Opposites
This painting is not for sale.
There is the desire to keep a gag on my camel headed dragon and hide my paintings and art treasures. Being public can hurt. There is however a much greater desire to spit out the gag and be a genie sharing the pearl of my creativity.
The whimsy of these dragons were inspired by the smiling camels at Doris Duke's Shangri La. More about my paintings inspired by the museum are in earlier postings.
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There is the desire to keep a gag on my camel headed dragon and hide my paintings and art treasures. Being public can hurt. There is however a much greater desire to spit out the gag and be a genie sharing the pearl of my creativity.
The whimsy of these dragons were inspired by the smiling camels at Doris Duke's Shangri La. More about my paintings inspired by the museum are in earlier postings.
Spanish Window Coral Reef
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This painting took several years to develop and finally took on a warmwhite and ice blue color combination. It was exhibited at LaSelles Stewart Center in June 2007 and later at Sam's Station in Corvallis, Oregon in January 2008.I was stretching trying to compare Spanish glass windows with looking down into coral reefs seeing the depths of the Pacific Ocean and getting a glimpse of tropical fish as they swam out and then back into hiding.
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