Camouflage – Amanda Rose Hopkins
My work uses the visual language of color to create an emotional feel, that connects directly to the heart and mind. The use of bright sensual colors, occasional subdued hues, and earthy elements brings about a range of feeling tones. The series of sensual flower paintings are meant to wet the palette by exciting the visual senses with their extremely bright hues and complementary colors. The greatest colors and purest feelings I encounter when in direct contact with the natural world. The intricate patterns, finely composed colors, and rounded shapes fuel a constant curiosity of the organic. Ecological elements are missing from this current linear realm humans have built from concrete and synthetic materials. Thus my intention is to bring nature, color, and a bio-dynamic aesthetic into “built space”. My art strives to insert pieces of the earth herself into man made settings. By gluing, weaving, drawing and painting my work flows into organic shapes, and literally contains environmental elements. Recently my love of painting and organic elements has combined into mixed media paintings which use found moss, bark, and seaweed with sensuously colored oil paint, to create an eco-sexual explosion of the senses. Whether collage, painting, drawing, sculpture, or mixed media the art created by my hands combines the color of feelings with the theme of earth to strive towards higher awarenes.
1329 Pacific Ave
6-9pm
