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Nancy Reyner

White Orbs 2

acrylic on panel
30"H
24"W
SKU NR-02-22

Available!

$16,000.00

I use materials that excite me, like gold leaf and reflective pigments. Combined with paint, I manipulate the images until they seem to glow, and the materials appear to transform into something else, something otherworldly. Nature is my guiding principle to portray luminous notions of air, water, earth and light. Creating imaginary new worlds, merging the literal and the metaphorical, my paintings hover somewhere between pure abstraction and realistic landscape. The ability to dream and to create new worlds by taking a flat surface and transforming it, is the gift that painters can bring to the world. With this concept of manipulating dimensionality, a painter may point out something that already exists but in such a skillful manner that the viewer sees it in a brand new way. Thus painting can alter the viewer’s perception, launching them into an exploration of their own thoughts and beliefs. I believe true understanding, in general, comes with our ability and willingness to envision what is below the surface, offering an internal awareness. This is my mission as an artist— to bring elements of our consciousness that are hidden in plain sight into the light, into the observable...