THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT- outsider art 5X7- MCEVOY

"THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT"

5"x7" Mixed Media Painting

An original painting by Deborah South McEvoy - mixed media painting on a 5"x7" canvas board. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

DEBORAH SOUTH MCEVOY

ART is the life energy of the soul.  I want my audience to contemplate my pieces and arrive at their own meanings as they bring their unique life experiences to the viewing of the art.

The primary subjects of my creative explorations include, spirit, soul, women, nature, layers, houses, time, love, treasure, and color.  My work is inspired by the music I listen to, the mood I am immersed in, and life itself.  At times, my work is simply play, exploration and experimentation with the mediums and materials I am using.

My pieces evolve as I prepare the canvas with texture, applying layers of paint, scraping and sanding the surface, adding paper, ephemera, making marks, sewing, and attaching found objects using a variety of visually interesting techniques.  I often finish the work with encaustic (a technique using layers of beeswax melted with small amounts of resin to impart hardness).  This allows me to further incise and scrape into the surface as well as giving a pleasing polished sheen to the finished product.

As a book artist, when creating altered books, I handle each page carefully.  By layering paint, utilizing a variety of image transferring techniques, adding texture, making marks, embellishing and cutting into the pages I create powerful visual statements that relate new stories to the viewer.

The progression of layering, embellishing, mark making and laying down of images allows me to become very intimate with the work in progress. Many of the processes and materials I use are unpredictable which opens each piece up for infinite possibilities.  This provides energy to my creative process and facilitates unique and inspired artwork.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Deborah South McEvoy is a mixed media artist.  She was born in Akron, Ohio, grew up in Tempe/Scottsdale, Arizona, and now resides in Casa Grande, Arizona.  Her main concentration is in abstract art and her subjects may include nature, houses or the human form.  Primarily a self-taught artist, Deborah has taken several classes and courses in various aspects of art which attribute to the vastness of her concepts in her art.