Painting Style

It seems that at least once a year I decide that I want to try some new painting technique or content focus.

I know that part of being a painter is having an identifiable painting style, that special something that enables someone to look at a painting and know that it is by you, regardless of what the subject of the painting is.

It appears that you develop your styles as you go through your life as an artist. I’d like to think you can have many different styles if you want to, and those will likely change as you grow as an artist. I certainly hope so, because I like to experiment.

Blues, acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14 x 1.5 inches, 2015. ©Ann Hart Marquis

The area that attracts me the most at this time is abstract art. I have been experimenting with new forms and ideas as I try to get more into the conceptual. As of yet I can’t say that it has given me any particular sense of painting freedom, I am definitely working a new area of my brain which feels exciting.

Here is another example of my exploration into the unknown.