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Sharon Pitts: Pitts, a graduate of the University of Illinois, continued to study art at the Philadelphia Academy of Art, The Barnes Foundation, Montclair State college, and numerous workshops around the world. She has been a teacher watercolors for many years. She is exhibited widely in the NY-NJ-PA region, with many awards to her credit. She has been featured in several publications most notably the New York Times, Who’s Who in American Art, and the Star Ledger. Sharon is a member of the Allied Artists of America (as Director of Watercolor), PS Art Tours (as President), and several other art organizations. Painting is my language. With watercolors, and brush and paper, I translate the world around me. I cut open a big navel orange, and before me appear sunburst segments becoming alive within the water and colors of the paint. The bark of a tree beckons with its molten textures, overlapping segments, vertical channels in winter-muted grays, browns, and subtle pinks, purples, and oranges. All there for the persistent observer. I am fascinated with the play of patterns, with the flow of color in water, the gradations of light and dark, and what is suggested rather than literal. I’m moved by the mystery of how a cowboy boot, or tree, or vessel becomes not the thing itself, but a new self. The painting changes what I’m touching, what I’m seeing: a flower transfigured now by the strokes of my brush, or the making of texture by tapping the paint with my fingertips. The watercolor sky coming alive with what I feel, and the mystery of what the paint evokes. When I come to the studio, even after 30 years, it’s a constant discovery of the new, unknown. Color combinations I’ve never dreamed of. Techniques creating effects, which reveal themselves to me as I work. As in a partnership, I observe and execute, and the process produces the final work. Painting itself generates what I call breakthrough ideas: a new direction, new subject, a new series. Often one painting will suggest another. Sometimes nothing comes and I lose myself in the work of other artists, inspiring books, old catalogues or calendars. Sometimes I take a solitary walk and let ideas flow and connect without judgment. But when the elements flow, color into water, into form, pattern, onto paper, under brush or fingers, or sponge or sticks, when what is random and what is controlled are in harmony with the moment, the vision, the happening…I make room and honor the unexpected, for what I cannot anticipate in my paintings and let it lead me where it will. For more information about the art or the artist, please contact: BOI's of New Hope Art Gallery 9 W. Mechanic Street New Hope, PA 18938 215.862.8292 boisofnewhope@verizon.net |
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| Two Irises | Multi Irises | |
| Watercolor on Paper | Watercolor on Paper | |
| 11 x 11 | 11 x 11 |
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