“Do not despise matter, for it is not despicable. God has made nothing despicable.” St. John of Damascus.
My art is about the good of the material world or “matter”, both natural and human made. To view or observe is not a passive process but a way of interacting with the material world, and with artwork.
I have a magpie approach to art. I see something I find interesting and combine it with images that are interesting or important to me, playing with shapes, colors and patterns. My work is a pastiche in that I pull my visual vocabulary from a wide variety of sources, decorative and fiber crafts, medieval art, Byzantine icons, the Fauvists, the Pattern and Decoration movement, Ethiopian sacred art. I like to make my paintings beautiful and a sensual experience but also awkward and interesting.
Kay Vass Darling 