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Marion Dies
I’ve become engrossed with collage. I am enjoying painting color fields on absorbant fabric and then cutting out random organic shapes. The colors I gravitate to seem to lend themselves to underwater scenes, so I’m assembling semi-abstract So. California vingettes. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, but backwards. The Garibaldi is the California State salt water fish and can be seen all along the coast and particularly around Catalina Island. It has protected status, and its bright orange color makes them unmistakable. It also makes them a great subject for artworks.
I’m doing more collage as a way to introduce some abstraction into my art. I paint fields of color on absorbant fabric and then cut out random organic shapes from them. The colors I gravitate to seem to lend themselves to underwater scenes, so I’m assembling semi-abstract underwater imagery, layering shapes with an attention to color harmony, contrast and composition. I can’t get away from imagery, so it has to suggest something to me, rather than totally abstract, so I can declare a piece finished.
