Margaret Stanton's acrylic painting"Onomea Bay" on Hawaii's Big Island is north of Hilo along the Hamakua Coast where the 4 mile scenic drive winds along the cliffs to the Tropical Botanical Gardens. I began this painting on the pali high above the bay and continued it's painting for several months to get many effects with transparency and thickness. Every nuance can be seen in each signed and numbered Giclee Fine Art Print on canvas.
"Onomea Bay"
Artist: Margaret Stanton
Original acylic on canvas
16 x 20 in:$1,600
Poster
16 x 20 in: $30
ART PRINTS
8 x 10 in: $90
16 x 20 in: $190
Embellished Print:
16 x 20 in: $695
"Onemea Bay" 2004 Acrylic 16 x 20"
I share with the Symbolists and the early Modernists the belief that spiritual states of being and feeling could be expressed through the properties of paint itself, of line, shape and color. In this painting the art become a matter of felt experience, conveying an unseen animating force that lay beneath and beyond the landscape in front of me. This was a very good day painting in the open air. I did not want this painting to be a record of only what was seen that day. I wanted to be loose and open to this expanding feeling and rippling motion I got from where I was high above. From up there all the forms in nature seemed to be of one spiritual essence. Instead of painting the leaves in front of me and the trees framing the edges of the water and sky, I translated into paint a state of mind corresponding with that special place. I believe that I captured the nature better than if I had been faithful to the realism. Art historians call this transposing the physical world into a world of feeling, a landscape of the mind, and embodiment of deep emotional intensity. To me, this is something that a photo can never do.
