Portraits

Physicists tell us that a thing is changed by the very act of being seen. And that the viewer is changed by the act of seeing. Certainly this is most visibly true with human beings desiring to be seen—really seen—and maybe understood a little. People are what engage me most. It is this dynamic and transforming interchange between subject and painter that intrigues me. And within that energetic activity between is the sweetest stillness I have known. A sense of settling into that psychological and physiological threshold between here and there, alternating tension and release as expression emerges on the paper, being completely present. This is the lovely experience of painting people and there is nothing like it.

~Viola Moriarty

(For an online catalog of complete works for this series, please click on the links to the left.)