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Faye Earnest Statement
“Shapes of life intrigue me: organic shapes of nature and environmental abstractions. It is a sensual experience of the world around us.” Her current works evolved from romantic Southern landscapes filled with exotic textures and bold colors. Using vivid acrylic and mixed media, Faye creates an inner composition of life, sometimes searching for a closer image, a minute strand within the earth. Her views of our planet’s interior and exterior have included Terra Rhythm, Strata, Sea and Soil, Wind Whispers, and Red Earth. She continues to seek connection with the world around her through ecological interpretation. With three degrees in art, Faye’s paintings have been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States for 25 years.
A New York review in Gallery and Studio magazine :
“In a romantic approach to landscape, the artist confronts the ineffable mystery of nature, while in the modernist one, the materiality of the terrain prevails. Earnest appears simultaneously smitten with the unknown and the down-to-earth aspects of nature in her large, bold paintings, which combines a sense of wonder and expansiveness reminiscent of the Hudson River School painters with the qualities akin to the craggy abstractions of Clyfford Still. Like every conscious, aesthetically sophisticated artist Faye Earnest builds upon the foundation of art history. But it is finally her direct response to the natural world that informs her art most deeply, making her landscapes come alive with a uniquely vital energy."
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