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Sarah Bienvenu

Taking Time: Thirty Years of Painting New Mexico

Malin Wilson-Powell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Fresco Fine Art Publications

Published:16th Sep '10

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For thirty years, Sarah Bienvenu's experiences painting and exploring New Mexico's mountains, canyons, and deserts have given her a unique ability to disentangle and interpret these past layers of change. She finds beauty in nature's ability to reveal accidental compositions through patterns and asymmetry: "I look to the land to tell me how best to paint it, using the natural abstract shapes I see." Being attuned to such abstractions--the undulations of a dry riverbed, the jaggedness of rock against sky--is where abstraction becomes detail: detail of texture, detail of shape, detail of light and color and composition.

Watercolors provide the perfect medium for matching the immense variation and subtlety of Bienvenu's Subject. A closer look reveals that each individual element, as in nature, harmonizes with the collective whole. Realism is discovered in consonance: from a cast of light to a balance of colors.

ISBN: 9781934491188

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64 pages