Sharon Boyle Woods
An American currently living in Doha, Qatar, Boyle-Woods has spent the last 29 years overseas. Her work is an organic process beginning with a central concept and evolving with her emotions and intellect while she works. Her work is unplanned and the actual painting takes shape as she applies paint to the canvas. Ms. Boyle-Woods begins with blocks of color (sometimes these can still be detected in the finished product) then allows the painting to emerge. Sometimes sculptors talk about finding the shape in a block of stone and although this may not make as much sense, Ms. Woods has the same experience with finding the subject in the canvas and paint.
editors note Next summer an art gallery in San Antonio will be featuring Boyle-Woods' paintings and the USA Ambassador's wife in Doha has asked her to join the best expat artist producing Middle East art exhibit this Fall, plus the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Doha has contacted her to do her own art exhibit in the Spring of 2010! She is up to her elbows in work and enjoying it!
detail from 'Artificial Boundaries' by Sharon Boyle Woods
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