Artist Statement

The artist is an alchemist who transmutes the actual into the emotional, and in the process "changes or alters the form, the appearance or the nature to a higher form". The Artist may communicate through any of the senses- sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, or movement; mine is a visual transformation. The fascination and life force in the process is commencing with an unpredetermined goal and being emotionally reactive to the visual environment. The resultant surprise, the sheer joy of creation, is then realized by the alchemy of the aesthetic process; mine can be no greater reality nor satisfaction.
-Ann Solomon

Bio

Ann's work over this period, from 1975 to present, includes drawings in diverse media and paintings in oils and acrylic, and water colors. Although her major love is landscapes, the human figure and still life are inspirational subjects as well. She has worked in art in her home in Sandwich, MA as well as Provincetown, Santa Fe, New Mexico, San Miguel D'AIIende, Mexico, Italy, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam and any location of inspiration, where she has produced a significant body of work. Her paintings and drawings exhibit a rare vitality and bold strength in drawing and use of color. Not an abstractionist, yet the design, pattern, and her use of media imparts an abstract, virility to her work. Since her senior thesis, "Landscapes of the mind", she continued to pursue interest in external landscapes as a vehicle to express interior landscapes expressed in personal symbols. Recent works include drawings and paintings in graphite, acrylic and oil paintings and monotypes. Ann has continued to purse her work in external landscapes as a vehicle to express interior landscapes, in personal symbols. Her recent focus has been a series of Buddhist monks. A recent trip to Asia has clearly influenced her recent work in monotype as well.

Ann Solomon, painter and visual artist, from Newton, MA and educated at the Rhode Island School of Design and Fine Arts, BFA 1970.
Ann studied art and painting in Italy while a student at RISD Honors Program and following graduation. Upon returning from Europe in 1970, Ann studied art therapy at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia.