Artist Statement
I paint to practice being present in body, mind, and spirit, a practice that serves me well as an artist seeking balance in all of life’s offerings. By staying in the moment with the soul-searching, meditative, curious inner dialog inherent to the creative process, I achieve the vision I seek.
As I paint in the silence of my studio, I listen for and attend to the sounds of creation, destruction, and rebirth, sounds that I connect to the internal and external harmonies and discords of life. I wait patiently for vibrating marks to emerge from the intricate surfaces I am honing and that call out to be nurtured further through the placement of personal and archetypal symbols. Using dots, random scribbles, and various line combinations, I orchestrate the parts into the whole.
Each sound produces an opportunity to ignore or make visible a potential idea. Occasionally, an image beckons through a transformational dream, as evidenced in the butterfly-bird, a phoenix rising in transcended form. The Earth Songs of Peace Series are a reflection of the gifts that I receive from my dreaming and waking life, and that I work to embody as I practice being with and following the impulses of movement, stillness, and sound. Each painting serves as an invitation to others to pause and to breathe, to hush and to listen, so that together we might hear into existence, a song for peace.
Pat Mattina
As I paint in the silence of my studio, I listen for and attend to the sounds of creation, destruction, and rebirth, sounds that I connect to the internal and external harmonies and discords of life. I wait patiently for vibrating marks to emerge from the intricate surfaces I am honing and that call out to be nurtured further through the placement of personal and archetypal symbols. Using dots, random scribbles, and various line combinations, I orchestrate the parts into the whole.
Each sound produces an opportunity to ignore or make visible a potential idea. Occasionally, an image beckons through a transformational dream, as evidenced in the butterfly-bird, a phoenix rising in transcended form. The Earth Songs of Peace Series are a reflection of the gifts that I receive from my dreaming and waking life, and that I work to embody as I practice being with and following the impulses of movement, stillness, and sound. Each painting serves as an invitation to others to pause and to breathe, to hush and to listen, so that together we might hear into existence, a song for peace.
Pat Mattina
