anna redwine

FRAUENAU PAINTINGS

Paintings from Bild-Werk artists' retreat in Frauenau, Germany, 2004



In this series, created in a small town in the Bavarian forest, I was drawing on distant memories of intensely experienced places and situations-- memories that are not clear like snapshots but potent aggregates of temperature, smell, and light. Formally, they address space and varieties of white as both possibility and substance. The use of color is intended to be viscerally evocative rather than literally representative. Because these paintings were created simultaneously over the course of one week of intense output, each of the twenty-four pieces is a member of one body like mushrooms or aspens.






red place

(red place)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



fishpond

(fishpond)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



frog

(frog)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



words

(words)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



yellow fan

(yellow fan)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



turquoise humps

(turquoise humps)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



mr. umbrella

(mr. umbrella)
24x17 watercolor crayon, sand, and gesso on paper



action

(action)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



bird dive

(bird dive)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



dragon

(dragon)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



beatte's sheep

(beatte's sheep)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



humps I

(humps I)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



white figure

(lily)
24x17 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper



branch

(branch)
17x24 watercolor crayon and gesso on paper