I live beside a beautiful, wooded conservation area where I walk every day with my dog. This place is a constant source of calm and inspiration, and it shapes the way I see and paint.
My work is intuitive and rooted in process. I’m interested in creating paintings where the forest and my imagination come together—where forms overlap, horizons dissolve, and the image slowly reveals itself.
Texture is essential to how I work. Using oil and cold wax, I build up and then scrape back layers of still-wet paint, with tools such as squeegees, palette knives, and brayers, allowing the surface to evolve in a tactile, physical way.
I move between abstracted landscapes and non-representational work,. I am drawn equally to both for the freedom and discovery they offer. For me, each way of working opens into the other and allows my imagination the freedom and breadth my persona needs. Carol Ann Michaelson