Video: Watercolors by Chris Keelock Williams
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chris Keylock Williams argues that her watercolor work is very much like a collage, where life experiences, images and interweaving of responses are superimposed layer by layer. Times pass, seasons change, but the moment captured in the picture remains. Each work is an interaction, balance and contrast of forms, elements and events. They can be viewed up close, or you can move away at a distance - and each time discover something new in them for yourself. The artist also says that her work and her life are one and the same.
The artist finds it delightful that she can find new ideas and visions of objects and share them with other people, embodying them in her works. Like a conductor running an orchestra, Chris calls himself the organizer of a kind of visual rhythm, where forms, colors and values are combined. “Can I depict an object in such a way that the viewer wants to think of it again and see it again? - the artist reflects. - Drawing is not an image of "something", drawing itself is "something". And therefore the artist's hand should not just reproduce what he saw. The artist must endow the painting with his own soul."
Chris considers watercolor to be the most exciting painting technique. “It moves, it is transparent, and at the same time you can learn how to make it work in your hands,” says the artist. It should be noted that Chris not only learned to subordinate watercolor to her creative ideas and designs herself, but also teaches others to do this: for more than 20 years she has been teaching, revealing the secrets of her skill to everyone.
Chris Keelock Williams is from Oregon, USA. She graduated from Marshfield High School at Coos Bay and Oregon State University in Corvallis. By the way, the artist's husband, Jim, graduated from the same educational institutions. The couple have three children and seven grandchildren. Chris is an avid gardener. She also enjoys kayaking, reading, relaxing in Sunriver and spending time with her family. The artist is the owner of many prestigious awards. She also leads the Oregon Watercolor Society. Other works by Chris are presented on her website.
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