Vanessa Violet Art
Inspiration


Nature in Motion
In every blade of grass, every wing, every current of air the world is speaking These works are an invitation to listen
ECHOES OF MYTH
Before thought, before language, before the self learned its name there was feeling These works are an invitation to seek it


I think of my art like music. Like music is felt by being heard, some forms are felt by being seen. — Vanessa Violet
Collections
WHISPERS OF EARTH
Highly detailed works executed with a loose and expressive organic hand motion. The texture of the landscape leads the eye on a journey through the archutecture of the air and earth that the creatures of wing freely traverse.
The work softens from a distance, and every shade of gray is an illusion. Simple black ink on paper built up with layers of intention. Every molecule, every atom teeming with life.
I invite you to look closely at my work and also the natural world around you and discover more.
Earth is a medium in which wind and water paint with time.
– Vanessa Violet
ECHOES of MYTHS
Purely expressive works representational of raw emotional states. Controlled and deliberate mark making in a state beneath language. My wrist anchoring every curve, straight lines unable to manifest itself in this process, my body enforcing the philosophy of fluidity. Heavy varied line work builds through layers of intention, occasionally crossing the threshold between line and form before returning, the way feeling momentarily finds its shape and dissolves back.
Mythology does not inspire these works. It recognizes them, giving a name to forms that arrived without words.
I invite you to feel before you understand.
A place of pure presence where feeling has no name and form arrives without interrogating intention.
— Vanessa Violet
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