ARTIST’S STATEMENT
"The
Midwest landscape has surrounded me all of my life. Having
spent most of my childhood in Ohio and my entire adult life
in Iowa, it is the images of these vistas which periodically
inspire me to try a new way of expressing this subtly beautiful
landscape. I enjoy hiking in some wilder parts of the country
so am also challenged by the unique forms of beauty found
in each of these places. In the past I have worked in acrylic
and collage. Now I am using the medium of soft pastel to
capture the qualities of undulating hills, overlapping rhythmic
forms, textures of trees and vegetation, rich colors, dynamic
patterns, changing light, and, always the sky. The land
remains constant, the colors transform subtlety from season
to season, but the sky is an ever-shifting panorama of light,
color and form. The possibilities are limitless.
"The immediacy and directness
of pastel is the quality I most value in this medium. I
feel I am able to best approximate and express the ephemeral
and very magical essence of light as it moves across the
land through pastel painting."
Marcia Wegman is an artist
living in Iowa City. Her work has been featured in national
arts magazines.
