REVOLUTION SERIES

Art is documentation of the evolution of life. 

My obsession with circles began several years ago in studying Mandala, the ancient Eastern art form that employs circles in the meditative process. I believe the symbolism of the circle is far greater than any other shape. I feel circular connections between all things. It is through painting that I can connect people with my personal spiral visions. 

What is not spiraling all around us? We find ourselves as part of the spiral Milky Way Galaxy, elliptically orbiting a giant sphere we call the sun. Our earth itself is a sphere, and it is orbited by a sphere called the moon. We all come from a womb, a sphere of life within our mothers. Our bodies are made of atoms, elliptically swirling with electrons. Our eyes, the portals through which we are granted vision, are two round spheres. Our lives themselves are a circular cycle. I paint circles because I see circles everywhere.    

I explore life with paint. I have determined that it is through physical revolutions that we experience personal evolutions. Revolution is a journey of personal growth.                                               

ENERGY SERIES

Everyone and everything... we are all made of energy.

As an artist I am compelled to make work that defines the human experience. I am constantly finding beauty in the aspects of life that are considered conceptual and scientific. I am fixated on abstract ideas; they are elusive and grand like an impossible equation yet to be solved.

My Energy paintings are fluid like a subtle stream of consciousness. The paintings are my solidified daydreams about energy which flow like rivers from my thoughts. Energy is an invisible force; it is an element which influences everyone and everything. Energy is a vital concept in physics, biology, geology and astronomy. My Energy paintings are concrete visual explanations of the existence and influence of energy in life.

 - Colleen Appleton Critcher