Trisha Shattuck
Guild Member Salon Show
“Tour,” Oil on canvas, 2019, 24 x 36 in, $2500. This painting represents an approach to discovery. With no advance concept in mind, I tentatively wound my way towards completion. Quality finished art should have visual interest, lead the eye, suggest movement, appear harmonious, provide visual texture, and have an edge to it; a Mystery that can’t be revealed in a moments’ glance. It should be expressive of meditations at that time of creation, yet evocative of the viewer ’s reminiscence.
Trisha Shattuck ABOUT: My name is Trisha Shattuck and I’m an artist living in Northern Michigan working primarily with oil on canvas and collage. Breaking away from the standard flat surface and seeking a merger between painting and sculpture is my challenge. Expressive coloration and a blend of figurative and abstraction describe current work. I gravitate towards the Mystery that reveals itself in a developing canvas. The concepts of balance and duality are intriguing. Can I manage both controlled and loose application of paint successfully? Where does the chaotic and finite exist together? Where is the edge of my own creativity, and what lies beyond that? Art is a meditation and a communing.
“The Leap,” Oil on framed panel, wallpaper, wood blocks, metal, coin, 2018, 11 x 24 in, $1250. When we take a Leap of Faith, we go out on a limb. Our safety net may not be readily available. Maybe we’re pressured to make the leap into the unknown, without great assurance… there we go, for better or worse. Having collected meaningful objects since childhood, with some nebulous idea that they would be used artfully someday, so it was with this collection. Combined, they represent a coming to terms where one transitions from one state to another, compelled to become… for better or worse.
GALLERIES: Crooked Tree Gallery, Petoskey, MI; Cycling Salamander, Charlevoix, MI CONTACT: Website.
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