| Artist Info |
| Name:
Sally
Loughridge |
| Town
of residence: South
Bristol, Maine |
Brief
Bio:
Painting has been a powerful, persistent magnet since
my early childhood, while raising my children, and during
my career as a clinical psychologist. I now focus on
art exclusively – painting, studying, exhibiting,
and teaching. I paint landscapes and seascapes –
the real and the imagined – in pastel, watercolor,
and oil. I am drawn to the rich almost pure pigments
of soft pastels, the inherent surprises in transparent
watercolor painting, and the act of mixing and stroking
oil upon canvas. I enjoy moving among mediums and find
such movement enhances my overall artistic development.
Primarily self-taught, I continue to grow through a
mosaic of workshops and classes.
I am very fortunate to live on the coast of Maine, with
its glorious intersections of sea, sky, and land. I
love to paint scenes depicting natural transitions:
the gradual change of New England’s autumn colors,
the lingering radiance of an early summer evening, or
the sudden shift in light and shadow a rain squall brings.
The process of making art is challenging, humbling and
deeply satisfying. Painting and sight have become reciprocally
entwined, with each enhancing the other. The fuller
my engagement in the action of creating, the more energized
and connected I feel to the world. In turn, I hope to
engage the viewer by stirring both memory and mood.
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Artist's Statement:
The original artwork incorporates
a mariner's compass rose quilt design mounted on a well-traveled
63" daggerboard. This quilt pattern evolved from the
nautical wind chart, or windrose, used before the magnetic
compass came into use in the late thirteenth century. The
daggerboard itself is painted to represent a column of seawater
rich with creatures native to the northern Atlantic.
This sixteen point compass rose includes wedges from a NOAA
chart, Penobscot Bay and Approaches, and paper elements
symbolizing the Maine's prolific evergreens. A traditional
pattern of stylized flying geese encircles the central design.
With artistic and proportional license, the painted daggerboard
depicts the horseshoe crab, bluefish, Atlantic salmon, herring,
moon jelly, humpback whale, octopus, striped bass, cod,
crab, starfish, lobster, and sea urchin. This list is but
a small fraction of the hundreds of species of fish and
maritime mammals that the Gulf supports. It was hard to
decide what to include!
Typically I paint land and seascapes with soft pastels,
watercolors or oils on conventional surfaces--fresh paper,
panels, and canvas. The Atlantic Challenge piece gave me
an opportunity to incorporate painting and collage on an
object repeatedly touched by the waters off our coast. As
I worked, I envisioned both abundant and threatened sea
life moving below as the daggerboard slid through the sea.
That imagined kinetic history of the "found object",
if you will, prompted me to learn more about the Gulf of
Maine and greatly enriched my creative process.
| Description of Art Work |
| Dimensions:
66"
x 15" |
| Medium
Used: Acrylic
and collage on wood |
| Title:
"Rose
and Dagger" |
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