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Artist’s Statement
“An echoing consciousness of my earthly experience suggest an afterlife to me, or so I have come to believe! And as I contemplate the possibility of some other expression of my life, I look to the skies. I visualize mists releasing their energy and drifting to earth until they, and the oceans life-filled waters, stream into the seas. I think of the oceans loosening their embrace and of mists transforming, to again energize the clouds. These images are uplifting to me and fill me with a passionate compulsion to recreate them in my artwork, and in so doing, to relate them for others to see”. M. E. 2010 Los Angeles
Biography
I was born into a creative family, which included artists, architects and engineers. Following their lead, oils became my first medium. I was exposed to the works of the Masters at a young age taking my first formal art classes when I was eight years old. I studied art at Kansas University and have continued my education throughout my life.
In addition to oils, I have also worked with pastels, acrylics, watercolors and several areas of printmaking. For my sculptures, I have used wood, stone, metal and ceramics. The emotional layers of glazes by Turner and Monet have influenced many of my landscapes. The multi-media commentaries of Robert Rauschenberg on modern culture, along with the meditative 'graffiti' of his friend Cy Twombly inform my recent pieces.
Peter Frank recently commented on my award winning work in Lark Gallery’s “Colors of Life” competition: "English takes a visual as opposed to polemical approach to commentary on the environment, and her commentary is more potent because of that. Of course, ecological art mostly preaches to the choir, but by painting what seem at first to be conventional landscapes -- deftly rendered and attractively colored -- English brings our attention back almost subversively to the pressing ecological issues of our time."
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