Andrea Ernest-Sheehan

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Egg tempera paintings retain a ghost of all previous layers. Even after dozens of new layers, vestiges of good, bad, and downright ugly marks remain and must be reckoned with. It’s life! I believe in working from life and this piece is a significant departure as it’s based on snapshots taken and sent to a friend who died. This image only employs blue and black pigments, yet the idea of ‘blue’, for me, is more than a quality of light or time of day. It’s a time of life. It’s loss. It’s isolation. There is beauty, but squinting is required.

Image opposite : Grimes Cove Farm Meadow