Rachel Guest
Lawrenceville, Georgia
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Favorite Cartoon Character: The Angry Beavers - Dag and Norb
Collect Anything: Buttons
Day Job: Painting instructor and promotional model
Star Wars Character of Choice: Princess Amidala
Dream Dinner Date: Mark Rothko
Favorite Color: Green
Drink of Choice: Three way tie: a bloody mary, strawberry juice or a diet cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper
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Color is the most important aspect of my artwork. It can create a mood and arouse the senses. When I choose colors, I am drawn to those that remind me of specific seasons, emotional states, or landscapes. Certain colors have the relationship of dueling lovers, warm and cool. Some colors are safe, calming, welcoming, while others are dangerous and untrustworthy. I utilize complementary color schemes, split complements, and primaries to create color harmony and interest. Colors are distributed rhythmically, steadily leading the eye through the entire picture.
An invention of my imagination, my work reveals landscapes that are driven by instinctive mark making. These marks, although instinctive are logical and considerate of the boundaries of the picture plane. My space is atmospheric, surreal, and abstract. I invite viewers to see these pictures spiritually and emotionally. I hope to evoke a sensory experience either from one’s past, or from an imagined dream space summoning recollections rich in sensory effects or memories previously buried within the viewer. The viewer can travel through the marks in the picture, guided by the vertical or horizontal strokes, into different colors, shapes, disturbances, and relationships.
My gestural marks are especially automatic-looking, resembling nothing in particular, but relating to drawing in a hypnotic state. Often defining several grounds or horizons, my vertical and horizontal lines branch and grow almost independently of my brushstroke, leading me to new areas of the picture. I feel as if I am interacting with the painting. I have created a space within the picture plane in which the natural world might meet the imaginary.
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