SAFETY- outsider art 5x7- MCEVOY

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"SAFETY" 5"x7" Mixed Media Painting An original painting by Deborah South McEvoy - mixed media painting on Strathmore watercolor paper. ARTIST STATEMENT DEBORAH SOUTH MCEVOY ART is the life energy of the soul. I want my audience to contemplate my pieces and arrive at their own meanings as they bring their unique life experiences to the viewing of the art. The primary subjects of my creative explorations include, spirit, soul, women, nature, layers, houses, time, love, treasure, and color. My work is inspired by the music I listen to, the mood I am immersed in, and life itself. At times, my work is simply play, exploration and experimentation with the mediums and materials I am using. My pieces evolve as I prepare the canvas with texture, applying layers of paint, scraping and sanding the surface, adding paper, ephemera, making marks, sewing, and attaching found objects using a variety of visually interesting techniques. I often finish the work with encaustic (a technique using layers of beeswax melted with small amounts of resin to impart hardness). This allows me to further incise and scrape into the surface as well as giving a pleasing polished sheen to the finished product. As a book artist, when creating altered books, I handle each page carefully. By layering paint, utilizing a variety of image transferring techniques, read more