RUBY PEARL ……………………ARTIST STATEMENT

My whole life as an artist is a pictorial journal, an emotional reaction to my internal world of trauma and abuse and is motivated by the need to re-create, reshape and heal the innocence and the soul of my youth. From my childhood I have found the process of transforming paint into beauty has struck me as magical.

I paint from the inside out and I am inspired by poignant and tender thoughts and emotions rather than rational ideas of what to paint. I am drawn in and mesmerized by the artistic method through which the imagination is visually realized.

My art speaks of a passionate creative process of intense reflection and perception that comes alive in pronounced layers and strokes of acrylic paint on canvas and rag paper. I find myself moving my paint brush, not on the canvas but upon the image of women, imparting myself to connect with their soul and to form an intimate bond between myself and the subject matter. Therefore the women I paint have an extraordinary presence and sense of wholeness that breaths the life back into them.

My paintings invite the viewer to a visual feast of life, to contemplate imagination, a memory of love and loss.

My art has allowed me to leap, soar and explore the person I have become and to hold the hope of delicate things to come!