Georgina Forbes Art
Georgina Forbes' abstract landscape paintings offer an experience of the energy of the earth and the elements that are life. The layers of color create a sense of being and place by referring to earth, air, fire, and especially water, the primary medium of her work. These paintings are filled with light, the kind of light that rivets attention, commands memory, and touches deeply.
Springing Forth, New Paintings by Georgina Forbes on display at the Vermont State Supreme Court
An energetic and brilliantly colored body of work entitled Springing Forth, New Paintings from a Southern Odyssey by Vermont artist Georgina Forbes was on display at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier from May 2nd through June 27th, 2008.
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Poured and layered acrylic washes of vivid colors, Forbes' paintings evoke a sense of spirit as well as the fluid nature of landscape, while remaining abstract compositions of many hues, patterns and shapes. "My dialog is with the liquid colors as they meet each other under a variety of circumstances," Forbes explains. "This process allows me to follow each wash in a responsive state as the paint opens up unforeseen realms of possibility."
Her newest paintings resonate with energy, inspired by a recent road trip to Naples, Florida via some of the East Coast's most extraordinary habitats, including the Chesapeake Bay, tidal rivers and marshes of the Carolinas and Georgia, and the Everglades. Forbes allows the influence of recent experience to stir the creation of paintings that play with memory in timelessness. Light emerges from the overlapping colors stained into raw canvas.
Forbes succeeds in painting the light in the air. She gives us just enough suggestion to invite very personal participation in viewing her work. In her painting entitled Grass Sea the viewer is drawn into a vast savannah-like marsh under a stormy sky of deep gray blues intercepting the flash of sunset coral clouds. Something ancient and mysterious awaits on the distant horizon, undefined but suggested.
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