Deconstucting the GardenPaintings in Oil by Maryclaire Wellinger
L As artist and poet, I marry myself to the landscape. Paintings emerge from this process of “one-ing” with Nature. The Great Glacier gifted Cape Ann the kettle pond, creek and marsh. My earlier paintings reflect the grand aspects of Nature in land and sea – wooded hills with their Perched Boulders, Serpent Kames and Glacial Moraines – Gloucester Harbor’s wide mouth, where waves break at Eastern Point Light on stones harvested from her granite quarry. My “Deconstructing the Garden” series perceives the cosmology of a squash vine or an heirloom tomato plant. The growing wildness of my kitchen garden in late August, brings me to the interstice where realism plays with the abstract and Nature radiates with luminosity and clarity. My paintings emerge from internalized landscapes – dreams – the Unconscious. Each work is an attempt at intimacy – the artist reaching out beyond her epidermal border to connect with another sentient being.
