LEE CASSIN

Creativity Requires The Courage To Let Go Of Certainties

Erich Fromm

Tracey Lee Cassin is a multi-award-winning published artist and photographer from the beautiful lakeside community of Rotoma in the Bay of Plenty of New Zealand.

Her creative practice is multifaceted as a painter, mixed media artist, writer/blogger, and photographer with works in private collections in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, the United Kingdom, Scotland, and Italy.

Her autodidactic practice explores many artistic aspects, particularly the fundamentals of space, shape, and color, using various mediums, including oils, watercolor, ink, printmaking, collage, and acrylics.

My seascapes encapsulate the many layers and beauty found within the ocean's water. The techniques I use in oils create a multidimensional perspective for the viewer that offers a contemporary insight into the movement, power, liquidity, and color of our beloved oceans.

Emotions, energy, and spirituality are the catalysts of all my paintwork and photography. There is very little desire for perfection or realism. But an extension of thought via placing an infusion of strength, hope, and courage into what I create. I offer the viewer of my work a portal to those feelings."

The sculptural use of paint with a palette knife and spatula is a personal passion.

As an artistic photographer, she has a particular interest in macro, digital manipulation, color manipulation, and the creation of inspirational quotation photography.

Her abstract and other contemporary subjects are influenced by the patterns and colors found in nature, the ocean, the human face, lyrics, and poetry. Often hidden symbolism, hearts, numbers, spirals, and faces appear in her work. Sometimes intentional, sometimes not.

Contemporary seascapes feature prominently in her body of work, and it is these for which she is most known.

Painted in oil or acrylic, they are birds-eye, abstract, or viewed in a contemporary manner of being within the water, looking back to the swell of the waves and horizon. She creates inspirational water images that capture movement and beauty using color, patterns, sand, rock, light, shadow, and sky combinations.

Wendy Cohen is a Sydney-based artist who has attained a BFA and MFA Degrees.

Her art practice focuses on the relationship of colors, shapes, lines, and form with realistic components communicated in a painterly language.

By integrating shapes into a cohesive body of colors and forms in conjunction with collage elements, flowing ideas are arbitrarily manifested that bring the viewer's attention to the brushstrokes, mark-making, and materiality on the surface of each painting.

However, the primary focus of Artist Wendy Cohen's practice is to invite the viewer to enjoy each painting as she transforms the static space of each painting with synchronized contrasting colors highlighting its vibrant chemistry and resonance.

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