A  Message...

         I am an artist.  I need to create,  I love to create.  Oils are my passion, size my obsession.
        I feel from the outside in...  from the inside out.  I feel other peoples emotions when they are near me.  I can not control that, nor do I want to,  it is part of who I am.  Who I have always been.  It is my inspiration.
        I do not always choose my topics, they choose me.  Usually images invade my mind,  followed by intense emotional unbalance, refusing to leave until I have expressed them visually, therefore releasing the emotion as well.   It is as if I have no control of my own thoughts until these thoughts that have invaded my mind are expelled.  When I express these thoughts through painting, the time seems to elude me, leaving me at times in a trance like state which can be comforting and perplexing all at once.
        Visually,  I capture things that we do not normally see.  Emotions we usually suppress. Hidden from a lack of understanding or from a fear of self confrontation.  If a person can look at my paintings and feel serenity or a sense of self understanding, I have succeeded.

I have always been drawn to the human form.  It looks so simple yet is so complex and beautiful in any shape or form.   Very similar to all of natures creatures.  But it all can also be very deceiving.  Something that looks so tranquil can be so violent and destructive.  From the soft rays of the sun that nurtures our food, to that same sun that could cause a drought that could kill hundreds.  It is all so intriguing how similar we are. How we may not be how we appear.  That is what moves me to create.

 

©2007 Jennifer Ribbe