Figures At Play Series
August 28 to September 25
An Arts Station Program
The Figures At Play Series is my attempt to work on an exercise of painting from memory: to awaken the imagination that fuels creativity.
The works were inspired by an old milk barn in Michigan, a bleak winter of ice fishing and eight foot snow drifts, during a time when I was deeply influenced by the works of Modigliani and Matisse.
“I paint because I am surrounded by life. I paint because I love and fear the feeling of creating something new. I find it irresistible that each painting is made of thousands of small dabs of color, oil and turpentine. I find it unbelievable that watercolorists can create a mood with a single brush stroke. If I can convey to you what you might be feeling, then I have succeeded in my small attempt at replicating beauty; life itself.”
Roann Liew is a 24 years young Canadian Malaysian who left the world of science for the lure of plein air painting. She has painted, lived in, been inspired by mountains the world over. Through the Rockies from New Mexico to Alberta, the Himalayas from India to China. This expressionist’s latest works are verging on abstraction.
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