Odarley

Title: Mountain Series, 2020-2021

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Concept: A series of paintings exploring movement and color.  Inspired by hiking in the Pyrenees mountains around my village I was interested in capturing the vistas looking down into the valleys. The hills are used as pastures, vineyards and small creeks cut through them to create dynamic changes in the typography of the landscape. Through line and color I explored these quick changes in elevation and their relationship with the viewer.

2021

Title:  Spring, Looking Up Trees, 2021

Medium : Photography and Oil on Canvas

Concept : A series of photos that I took looking up trees in the spring of 2021 that inspired a group of paintings. Focusing on the play between the light coming through the new growth of the trees and the shadows cast by the sun still low. The effect created an abstracted and playful juxtaposition between light and dark. The other surprise effect was the impression of a halo appearing at the tops of these tress, which I had not noticed in the photograph.

Title: Selfie Portrait Project, 2020

Medium : Oil On Canvas

Concept : Developed during the pandemic,  participants were asked to submit a selfie. Beginning as a simple drawing portrait study, Selfie Portrait Project grew into a collection of 20 pieces of women (classmates, colleagues, past-students and family) from my past and present, reconnecting to past memories.

Title: Vineyard Project

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Concept : The theme “Vineyard” was presented for a group art exhibition. MI chose to focus on the creation on the wine and being in the south of France, having vineyards in my backyard, I witnessed this process first hand. I had the chance to pick grapes one season and a spectacular discovery is the fun lunch you have after a full morning of picking rows and rows of grapes staining your fingers a beautiful red-purple. Everyone sits down and makes a hearty sandwich on a baguette and a glass of wine from the previous years harvest.

Title: Village Scenes Series

Medium : Linoprint, Pen, Ink, Watercolor, and Oil Paint

Concept : A collection of small prints of local villages and towns. I enjoy using a mixed and unconventional color pallet, placing highly contrasting color, as well as playing with darks and light. I enjoy playing with the shapes and brush strokes that take on an impressionist quality where the viewer steps back and sees the image clearly. I enjoy mixing abstract and realism.