Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Biography
Paige is an award-winning painter whose work has been exhibited and sold throughout the United States and internationally and is featured in numerous public and private collections. She began painting at an early age and pursued formal art education (BA, MPS, PhD) to hone her practice and process beyond technical skills toward a dialogue with the natural world that is rooted in contemplation, tranquility, humility, and compassion. She resides in Corrales, New Mexico.
Artist Statement
Nature has been my greatest teacher and has solidified my understanding of life and painting. My art practice and process are rooted in contemplative identification with nature. The energy of nature is felt and expressed through the painting process - it is experienced, not analyzed. My palette knife oil paintings embody the pursuit of effortless action. The painterly execution, which relies more on impression, intuition, and feeling, rather than on strict realistic representation, speaks to humility, a rejection of the artificial and a celebration of the raw and imperfect. Whether plein air or produced in the studio, my paintings move from representation toward abstraction and are born from my dialogue with the natural world. Amidst the melding of the inner and outer, order emerges through the foundation of minimalism. Shapes become pared down, colors are chosen with purposeful restraint. Thick impasto accretions, like sculpted earth, rise from the canvas, rough and inviting like weathered rocks etched with tales of time and resilience and invoking compassion. Nature is rendered with simple elegance, reminding us that beauty lies not in excess, but in the essential.
