"Garden of Insight" by Dawn Siler, Mixed Media on Canvas

DETAILS: 30"x40" Mixed Media on Canvas Original Art Work 2020 ABOUT THE ARTIST: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawn.silerart/ Website: www.dawnsilerart.com Dawn Siler Dawn Siler is an abstract artist who lives and works in Irving, Texas.  A native of Philadelphia, PA her colorful paintings are a continuation of her personal interest in meditation and the unconscious mind.  Having studied at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, where she concentrated on music video production, her sense of space and visual awareness broadened.  A diverse career followed, but painting - a love that was largely self-learned - became Siler’s outlet for intellectual and creative self-expression.  Her paintings demonstrate a kind of automatic writing. Inspired by the work of Lee Krasner, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Jackson Pollock, her work is closely tied to the spiritual in art.  Color, line, layers, drawn into patterning, and a floral palette saturates the canvas.  Intensity, rhythm and improvisation a