By Sara Cole
Located in Riverdale, NY
Overgrowth 24, acrylic, graphite, coffee on paper, 29x29. Framed to 33.5x33.5 This work on paper filled with shades of grey and purple and green is framed.
California artist, Sara V. Cole has a deep and profound obsession with the natural world. From insects and birds and humans to botanicals and root systems, weather patterns and migrations and the effects of systems upon each other, Cole spends countless hours imagining these as visual symbols layered on top of each other.
Cole uses stencils created from Hybrid forms and shapes of Botanical images combined from her photos, botany books, historical illustration and online searches. The shapes are traced with graphite onto the stained paper. Progressively darkened washes of acrylic are brushed into the stenciled shapes and more shapes are overlapped over and over. Where they overlap, like a Venn diagram, the shared space is painted with opaque acrylic.
Cole is a nationally represented, internationally exhibited fine art painter with a full-time art making studio practice.
Cole has placed work with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Bi-annual Auction, Hilton Hotels, the Microsoft Collection, Stanford University, the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the Ritz Carlton in Laguna Niguel, the Grand Hyatt in Atlanta, Iberia Bank in Louisiana, and De Anza...
Category
2010s Contemporary Coffee Landscape Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Coffee, Archival Paper, Graphite