Wendy weir

My mother and grandmother were painters, and I was fated to follow this maternal line in the world of artistic endeavor.

For most of my life I have been an avid art collector and have spent large sections of my vacation time in art museums absorbing style and technique. Twenty years ago I began painting myself. I have taken a few classes over
the years but remain largely self taught. I love impressionist, expressionist and abstract art and have found paintings in these styles to be the most enduring in my personal collection.

I love how the viewer can constantly make new and surprising discoveries in these non-representative works; in a sense they open the creativity in the mind of whoever is experiencing the finished piece. The possibilities are endless in any one art work.

Many of my paintings and fabric collages originate with a concept or an image in mind. Then my internal creative process takes over and extrapolates a painting from that beginning. Others flow freely from an inner impulse that expresses as an image of color and shape and balance arising from deep inside of me.

I can’t say that the process of creation is always a pleasant one for me. Until the project feels completed I often feel anguish and anxiety. Once the art work is resolved, however, I experience relief, gratification and joy!