Events by Lorna Ritz

Artist

Born in Worcester in United States (1947)
Lives and works in Boston in United States

My creative process entails a whole lot of editing, (scraping and reapplying paint). I feel like I am at a construction site breathing life onto the canvas through a simultaneous building up and a tearing down of color. My paintings 'sing' through the light that emanates from the color combinations themselves.
Each of my paintings represents a crystallized chunk of formal experience, as well as being very personal at the same time. My paintings are earthy, rock-like and weighty, and yet they have in them the rhythm of the sea.
I am a nature painter; the nature "out there" coupled with my own internal landscape. My "inner" finds the equivalent "out there."
I have finally earned the right to title a painting “Duende.” This Flamenco word has many meanings, all of them applicable, but what “Duende” means to me is a need to communicate personal experience, to send waves of emotion that look like the painting got painted with little conscious effort, having a quality of first-timed-ness, an experience of time distortion effect, even though the painting took months of concentration to pull together into what whole impact it finally becomes.