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To
write an artist's statement is to remember that everything changes. What I know about meaning and purpose in my work changes,
grows and fades, ebbs and flows, and can be an assortment of intuitions and felt sense. The work is a search and a finding,
this work of artists, and viewers. We are romancing the imagination.
What remains consistent is the creative process.
I make prints, and make paper, and paintings - following the trail of my experience, sometimes having the trail pointed out
through the work. My artwork is personal imagery, with resources in large part from my travels and study of Asian cultures.
Sometimes the work leads to understanding, sometimes understanding leads to the work. My work reflects and echoes
my life in a visual narrative, as witness to the felt sense of my experience.
I love the monotype method of printmaking
for its painterly characteristic and its quality of being immediate, and still it is a print. A monotype is unique as an image
and in its sensibility. This method is particularly susceptible to the printer's state of mind.
The precursor
to, and old friend of printmaking, is paper. The basic materials of fibers and water, and the simple technology of papermaking,
combine and open up a field of creative possibilities. Papermaking is simple fun.. I love the historical and cultural content
of papermaking, with the permutations of methods and techniques that evolved from culture to culture as the technology made
its way around the planet.
I frequently print an engraved line image on the matrix of the poured paper composition.
Handmade paper takes a printed line beautifully.
Key in my thinking about art and process is an integration of
ideas, view, frames of reference and all the influences that can be a part of an image. Making art is a privilege and a service.
Carol Brighton
2009
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Notes From a Mountain Journal
Prints and Paper by Carol Brighton
August
13 through September 27
at The Ren Brown Collection
Reception and artist's talk and
papermaking demonstration on
Saturday August 15, 2-4 pm
Contact:
Ren Brown
Ren Brown Collection
1781 Coastal Highway One
Bodega Bay, CA 94923
707-875-2922
rbc4art@renbrown.com
www.renbrown.com
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Bodega Bay, CA August 9, 2009) The work of papermaker and
printmaker Carol Brighton is being shown at The
Ren Brown Collection, August 13 through September 27. There will be a reception and artist's talk and papermaking demonstration
on Saturday August 15, 2-4 pm.
Brighton's many journeys throughout Asia
and the mountains of the Himalayas are reflected in this introspective inquiry into time and memory and the path of a traveler.
Continuing in a tradition of monotypes and handmade paper,
Brighton prints images that record an interior experience of real places, reflected in the mind's eye, as in a dream rather
than a photograph. Each monotype print is a single copy, a painterly print. Her handmade paper works are pulp painting with
intaglio print in the same introspective vein. The Ren Brown Collection is located an hour north of San Francisco
in Bodega Bay. The gallery specializes in contemporary art from both sides of the Pacific. It is a unique setting on
Coastal Highway One, housed in an architect's designed, refurbished building with shoji and a small, serene Japanese garden.They
are open 10am -5pm, Wednesday to Sunday and closed Monday and Tuesday. For more information about the
exhibition call (707) 875-2922 or send email to rbc4art@renbrown.com.
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