Artist Name

Erin Meagher

Title

Radically Surrendered

Medium

Painting

Visual Description

A portrait of a figure coming into being. The vertical height is about the size of a small person standing with the width of their arms held out. The background of the canvas is not painted so the white is still visible. The layers of paint above are a mix of iridescent and matte colors so the picture has shine. The first layer shows flashes of energy whizzing through. The second layer shows emotions arising in response to feeling scared and out of control shown with smudges, scratches, and marks made by dragging fingers covered in paint across the canvas. The next layer shows the side of a figure without a face whose head is more solid and body is not yet solid. I took a flat piece of silicone that I squeezed paint onto of four or five shades of blue and iridescent purple and I started at the top of the canvas in the middle and pulled back and forth in slow curves so that it creates a shape ultimately of a figure seen from the side, with no differentiation of arms or legs, and the colors shift from solid colors to less and less color so that the figure is translucent and see-through starting at the hips. The top layer of paint on the painting shows elements of nature: water, moon, plants, with paint strokes that are smooth and more balanced. The piece speaks to invisibility, solidity, taking shape, how we form and what forms us, how we morph and what morphs us, future memory and present.

Materials

Acrylic paints and oil pastels on canvas

Image Source

Jenna Fischer