Katherine Doyle
PAST EXHIBITION: 'Everything Illuminated'
June 13th- July 26th, 2015
June 13th- July 26th, 2015
PAST EXHIBITION
Paintings and Photographs by Katherine Doyle will be on display at Drift Gallery as part of CONFLUENCE from August 9th - September 7th
ABOUT THE ARTIST
My interest in art is to examine the point at which the physical or conscious world meets the inner, intuitive world. Composition for me begins with an instinctive, spontaneous process whose goal is to reflect the two worlds simultaneously. By containing some essence of both our conscious daily experience of the world and the subconscious, a picture can hint at how the two worlds relate to and mirror each other. I organize each composition on the basis that different characters in the painting reflect different archetypes or facets of the personality. Every picture is also, in a sense, a self-portrait.
The images are an amalgam of rational thought, imagination, myth, and whisperings from the unconscious. Other vital elements in the brew include fragments from my models’ lives and my own. I prefer to work with people for years; as I get to know them well, their characters and the events in their lives move me, overlapping pictorially with my own.
Presently I work with ideas and images based on the myth of Persephone’s descent into the Underworld, re-imagined for here and now. I understand myth to be a fiction expressing a truth: by working with images instead of words, I attempt to represent those truths in visceral, subconscious ways. I consider early myths to be stories that map the original and enduring human narrative. Although these narratives may seem to be told as physical events, for me they also echo intuitive experience; this mirroring is reflected in this body of work.
Please contact Drift Gallery at 603-379-6560 to inquire about availability.
My interest in art is to examine the point at which the physical or conscious world meets the inner, intuitive world. Composition for me begins with an instinctive, spontaneous process whose goal is to reflect the two worlds simultaneously. By containing some essence of both our conscious daily experience of the world and the subconscious, a picture can hint at how the two worlds relate to and mirror each other. I organize each composition on the basis that different characters in the painting reflect different archetypes or facets of the personality. Every picture is also, in a sense, a self-portrait.
The images are an amalgam of rational thought, imagination, myth, and whisperings from the unconscious. Other vital elements in the brew include fragments from my models’ lives and my own. I prefer to work with people for years; as I get to know them well, their characters and the events in their lives move me, overlapping pictorially with my own.
Presently I work with ideas and images based on the myth of Persephone’s descent into the Underworld, re-imagined for here and now. I understand myth to be a fiction expressing a truth: by working with images instead of words, I attempt to represent those truths in visceral, subconscious ways. I consider early myths to be stories that map the original and enduring human narrative. Although these narratives may seem to be told as physical events, for me they also echo intuitive experience; this mirroring is reflected in this body of work.
Please contact Drift Gallery at 603-379-6560 to inquire about availability.
