Nice! I just found out that my painting,
Night Swimming, has just won an award in my current exhibition,
Sizzle, now hanging at the
US Geological Survey in Reston, VA. Sponsored by the
League of Reston Artists, Juror:
Carolyn Grosse Gawarecki
Come celebrate with me at the reception on Wednesday, August 15, 3-5pm. The show will hang through August 31. It's a federal building, so don't forget to bring your ID when you visit.
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Night Swimming
oil and charcoal on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
© 2012 Morgan Johnson Norwood |
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While evocative of bubbles and pools of water,
Night Swimming, like most of the paintings I've created in the past year, is actually inspired from the patches of dappled light through the trees on the pavement. In this piece I am exploring those round shapes; forms that also echo the pattern of holes in a lotus pod, another recurring symbol in my paintings. These shapes remind the viewer not only of patches of light, but also of rain, of air bubbles rising through deep water, and of stones. Sometimes when we explore the darkness we find the light. In creating this painting, I used layers of paint in inky blues, warm reds, and buttery yellows through which I scrawled simple charcoal gestural drawings for texture and interest.
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