Jacqueline Anton

Natural Forms is an exhibition of oil paintings I have created throughout my senior year of college. Each painting is inspired by nature. When I see a natural form that I want to paint, I do not photograph it—instead I try to remember the image as best I can and let it circulate in my mind. The image changes as time passes depending on my memory of the moment and what I am thinking at the time. I often create a pattern out of these forms in an attempt to organize what I have seen. Finally, I paint the appropriated image. My process helps me to better understand and express the presence of nature in an urban setting, as well as the effects of an overload of photographic and symbolic images on my memory in contrast to true sight. This show strives to highlight the vast existence, complexity, color and forms of nature.