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american artist
Angela Treat Lyon
painting & sculpture
I
make art because I must. It’s a cellular need. Images
dwell within me getting fat and juicy until they just
simply will not allow me to sit on them one more minute.
Many many nights I’ll wake up with designs in my head, all
clamoring to come out at once, and I’ll have to get up and draw
furiously till they’re out and happy.
When I was very young, I made a pact with myself not to do
any artwork that depicts pain and suffering – why paint that
when we see so much of it all around us, every day?
I want to see and surround myself with expressions of the feeling
I had in my heart about how I feel it could be, and really is, on
levels we don’t normally think about or have visual access to
during the glaring light of day.
I intend my work to do with joy, celebration, and the great,
incredible depths of the invisible world that we inhabit, that
inhabits us, and that swirls in un-nameable curling, flowing
eddies in and all around us all the time.
Mood, emotion, feeling and the underlying spirit – this is what
I love. I prefer strange color combinations and exaggerated
bodies and movement to depict emotion. The motion of the
body; the expression of the heart; the glory of color; the voices
of joy and wonder and connection with each other; the unity we
each have with Spirit: these are the things that matter to me, that
I draw, paint, and carve.
ART
The older I get the looser my work seems to become. My hand
flies, and my mind feels alive and connected to some amazing,
enormous, endless source. I’m delighted with this work, no
matter the medium – it makes me happy.
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