Kristen Reitz-Green

Contemporary Oils

Sunday, April 19, 2009

"California Poppy" oil on canvas, 6x6"

at the Blue Heron Gallery

Flowers, especially close up, really draw me in. I love the abstraction of seeing just part, where the contrast of colors is intense.

Kristen Reitz-Green: Vashon Island, Washington; I am an artist living on an island in the pacific Northwest. For the past year I having been painting exclusively in oils, mostly on board but also some canvas. For a few years prior to this, I painted furniture with acrylics in a style reminiscent of art from Oaxaca, Mexico. For many , many years before that, I was a professional french horn player. Life circumstances made me choose to put my instrument down permanently and this blog is evidence of my creative spirit coming out in different form. I love the practice of daily painting and after all the years in classical music, daily practice feels essential to art as much as it did to music.

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