Ann
Brady
Art
Abstract Mixed Water Media Paintings
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“One of the oldest and longest romances is between the eye
and the hand.”
Master Artist Jake Weidmann
I am a Watercolorist who has been moving in a different direction with Mixed Water Media and Collage. My early background in sculpture, lost wax casting and welding has informed all of my work since. Even my work as an Art Therapist was guided by the reoccurring theme of process and transformation.
There are the visual moments as I move through this life that steal my attention.They present powerful attenuations and blur daily static. They are tangible testaments to the human experience, natural inevitabilities and the pronouncement of things having been. It is those deviations from the notion of perfection that I bear witness to in this fleeting beauty, exquisite moments, captured and lost, felt and gone.
Watercolor forever challenges the relationship between control and its abandon. Capturing places in that process through Collage provide layers of control and choice, of the lost and recaptured.
I am a Layerist and a Colorist. My Transparent Watercolors relied heavily on my own photo references. The Acrylic Skin and Mixed water media paintings, on the other hand, are completely intuitive. My use of both mediums, have layering in common. The content in both generally reflect things that are in a state transition. It is my ode to things of age, of use and waning function and the beauty revealed in deterioration. It is ultimately, as with everything else, about process.
BIO
Ann Brady is both a Transparent Watercolorist and Mixed Water Media artist. She as a began as a Sculptor, clay to Bronze through Lost Wax, in addition to welding. After finishing her Bachelors of Fine Art at the University of Arizona, Ann moved back East to attend Graduate School at Lesley University for Art Therapy. Her approach to the Clinical work deeply informed her own work as she moved onto two dimensional painting as a focus.
Ann’s body of work over the past decade has been largely abstract, frequently using elements of her photo references of composition, texture, form, value and color as a starting place. Her extensive body of watercolor and collage work share layering as foundational to her style. Ann is now working solely intuitively. The dialogue generated between mark making and successive responses best represent her creative process .
Ann has shown and sold her work locally, regionally and nationally for the past 30 years.
Ann Brady
508-517-5081
My overarching goal in painting is for the viewer to have a felt experience by transcending conventional familiarity. Abstraction circumvents the viewer’s intellectualization, allowing for an unnamed connection to a state of being, to the collective unconscious.