Adrianne Rona

Art has has always been a part of me.

I taught High School Art, was an interior designer, designed Children's clothing, always seeing the world in a creative way.

Most recently I have found my voice thru painting. Colors, shapes art my language. The world around me is my inspiration, people landscape and still life. The canvas is my enviornment, concerned with the entire space. I react with emotionalism and work the canvas until I feel is talks. I use the palette of the Impressionists, mixing layers of color and energy of the strokes. Positive and negative shapes, the exitement of complementry colors all play on the canvas. I woould call my paintings Modern Expressionism.

It is important in my mind for art to be shown and seen and reacted to .

The Woodstock ARtist Association has been an important part of my development and I feel strongly about its value to ther community. Art must be seen.

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Adrian Rona is a painter with a passion for color and surface. No matter what her subject matter is, these two elements of painting, are her concerns. She has developed a impeccable sense of formal design, which she discovers during the painting process, En passant. A true spontaneous artist, she relates to the image as it grows, often engaging in a titanic struggle to achieve or reestablish pictorial unity. Starting with a line or an area of paint then reacting to it , responding and always feeling toward the whole. Adrian uses subject matter to stimulate her abstract sensibility, she claims she cannot do pure abstraction, it’s hard to believe but she does need the visible world, especially the figure to engage her powers. Her pictures are fresh dynamic experiments, often beautiful, refined and daring, like a jazz musician’s composition, they are improvisations on a theme . She reminds me most of Diebenkorn or Parks during the San Fran figurative period, but with a lot more color.

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