"Garden Patterns" by Karen H. Salup, Mixed Media on Canvas

DETAILS 36" x 48" Mixed Media on Canvas Original Art Work ABOUT THE ARTIST: KAREN H. SALUP,  Artist Statement As a painting evolves I am composing intuitive images that references lean to nature. There is a vocabulary that I have developed, consisting of visual poetry. These terms such as mark-making, brushstrokes and gestures where known as idiosyncratic visual poetry by the Abstract Expressionist movement creating gestures that bring to the viewer; Forms, Texture, Color and Light. My work is very much like a process. I find image secondary to the art making. Although abstract in nature, there is an underlying visual order that gradually seems to emerge. Working intuitively, I enter a realm of the unknown where there is more of a calling than any real choice. I seem to be forever altering and adjusting the core of the painting and some invisible reality that appears. This self-imposed repetitive process as I build, erase and paint layers becomes a definite chaos through which the wor