Sharon Rawlins

Sharon Rawlins

In my work I use suggestion and impression to describe time and place. I am interested in how line and marks, color and gesture, along with variations in the visual ¬perception of the paper can create a unified whole from which individual elements emerge to ¬express something real and essential. The resulting images capture passing moments and spaces glimpsed, sometimes ¬minimally, ¬always recognizable. They are grace notes speaking to time and place. They are indicated realities evoking recognition. They deal with the commonplace, with the blurred line between ordinary and ¬extraordinary, and with that which lies beyond the superficial. They deal with the transient and well-remembered moments in life.

This thought from Van Gogh captures what I am reaching for:

“It comes down to seizing what does not pass away in what passes away.”