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Laura-Lynn Bolan
Toronto, Ontario
Painting
llbolan9000@hotmail.com
www.llbolan.spaces.live.com
416.553.2023
Blue Ocean Fray
36” x 48”
Oil on canvas
2008
Artist Statement / Fallen Angel Series
For me, the act of painting is an immersion in the process of creation, and is an intuitive and evolutionary process. As a painting progresses, the work reveals itself, both in the physical and metaphysical sense, such that a spiritual idea will imbibe the work. This concept provides a framework for comprehending an, essentially, abstract work. For example, the understanding of the painting, Fallen Angel is elaborated by two accompanying passages from Paradise Lost, which each address the problem of despair:
Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is Hell;
Myself am Hell.
(Satan speaks in Paradise Lost, IV, 72 – 74)
Degraded, to what wretched state reserv'd!
Better end here unborn...
But is there yet no other way, besides
These painful passages.
(Adam speaks in Paradise Lost, XI, 501, 527)
Furthermore, the painting is my personal tribute to Van Gogh, elicited as a deep response after having seen his work, placed within the milieu of his own contemporaries, at the Dallas Museum of Art in the exhibition, Sheaves of Wheat. Thus, imagination, memory, art history, and personal history all combine to enrich the context from which the work can be approached.
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