Marlene Rye
Paintings
Marlene Rye's Paintings
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| Dreams Under Foot medium: oil on canvas Size: 42" x 39" |
Fall Low IV medium: oil on canvas Size: 18" x 18" |
Forest Coronation medium: oil on canvas Size: 54" x 50" |
Jazz Improv medium: oil on canvas Size: 44" x 30" |
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| Red Reverie II medium: oil on canvas Size: 44" x 30" |
Ribbon Dance Squeeze medium: oil on canvas Size: 44" x 30" |
Spring Double Dutch I medium: oil on canvas Size: 54" x 50" |
Spring Jubilee medium: oil on canvas Size: 42" x 39" |
Artist Statement
"Travel in your mind back to a time as a child when you were in the 'wilderness': backyard, vacant lot, roadside, field, or forest. Remember how the world looked as you crawled through the greass, each individual blade becoming a towering tree, rocks transformed into mountains. Visualize looking through the brambles and thickets of your backyard and feeling the enormity of that space juxtaposed with the closeness of the surrounding branches. See a field, feel the openness of the air and the closeness of the surrounding branches. See a field, feel the openness of the air and the closeness of the warm ground beneath, expanding and contracting the space at the same time. These sensations are at the heart of my work..."