Vanessa Violet

Vanessa Violet Art

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

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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

ABOUT ME

From a young age, I have been captivated by the whispers from the past. Ancient history, 1700's biological amd botanical field observation drawings, stories from mythology were my portals to fantastical worlds where my imagination was brimming with adventure. Travel also captivated me, from family road trips watching the gradual change in the landscapes around me, to international travel getting to experice different cultures, food, architecture, and wildlife. My curiosity from history and the natural world aroumd me still fills my creative process and are sources of endless inspiration.

Artist Statment

I find new experiences in ordinary activities while meditating. Observing the way air has physical weight, the way a dead tree harbors more life than anything around it, the way two birds in a flock of thousands can make their bond the most visible thing in the sky. The boundry between myself and my souroundings dissolves. I try to capture this in my work. I try to make the negative space in my drawing as meaningul as the positive. Letting the blankness of the paper play an intrical part of the designs. I draw birds. The creatures unbound from the ground. Truely free in the three dimensional world. They have a relationship to gravity that is genuinely different in kind. I collapse that infinity of possible paths into form. Every mark I make is an act of presence. Every dot placed contributes to the tapestry of a moment preserved as form.

E- commerce still under construction. Please reach out to vanessa.violet.williams@gmail.com for any business inquiries

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