November 1st – Jan 4th, 2018 ::: Paintings by :: BethAnn Lawson & Alan Rushing ::"8 o'clock moment":: Candice Rose BethAnn Lawson is a modern-impressionist painter who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Her bold, striking work is heavily influenced from her long 30+ year career as a graphic designer and illustrator. Fascinated by people and design, her paintings capture candid glimpses of everyday life and buried secrets of strangers, surrounded by the architecture of both nature and man. Alan Rushing I’ve been painting for a long time, longer than I’ve done most anything else in my life. It’s evolved along the way, I’m not sure I’m where I thought I would be when I started. I thought eventually I would arrive at some magical place where you found out where you were going next. A place you mapped out a good portion of the rest of your life. I didn’t happen though, time flew by fast, and I haven’t a clue what is coming next. What I have found along the way is an appreciation for the craft of painting, and I’m willing to spend more time with the work than I was used to. I look for inspiration in everyday life, figures, interiors, still life, or landscape, anything having to do with the world I occupy. Regardless of the subject matter, I find myself trying to be more observant of the world around me, looking for those little details that separate one moment from another. I tend to think of myself as a counter-puncher, responding to what is thrown at me, acting on what I take in. I look for that catalyst that will take me on that next tangent of inspiration. A counter puncher chooses the appropriate response, waiting for the other person to make a move and then turning it to their advantage. In this way I let the subject matter speak to me, and influence how I would paint it. There is a definite give take to this process, trading blows if you will, before finding the final outcome, but that’s what makes the process interesting.
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