‘‘Swell” (oil), by Christina Beecher, in the group show “Emerging Out of Isolation {of the pandemic},’’ at Galatea Fine Art, Boston through Oct. 31.
The Massachusetts-based painter told the gallery:
"In Swell, I found a panel with an under-painting of golds that literally had no meaning to me. I had started this work months before. I began to mix, to paint, wipe and repeat, allowing myself to fumble and plow through. With some luck inevitably things begin to happen. Colors start to excite me as the brushstrokes happen almost by themselves. Through the gloom I felt came comfort.
“Yellow and reddish turbulent clouds rise skyward while the swelling sea of bright colors slide across the horizon. This small work is a dichotomy of both brushstrokes and concept, with the swirling movement of the sky and the swirling swells of the ‘sea’’
See:
http://www.christinabeecher.com/
