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DocuSign Envelope ID: C65FFCA2-OCAA-4476-9EO3-793FA837F635 Page 1 of 1 <br /> Nerys Levy <br /> From: "Louise Francke" <franckearts @mebtel.net> <br /> To: "Nerys Levy"<rilevy @mindspring.com> <br /> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 9:47 PM <br /> Subject: statement <br /> Art is the profession which chose me in my earliest years. My Grandfather's National <br /> Geographic subscription uncovered a distant and a strange wild world. These encounters <br /> with art objects, buildings, and strange people subconsciously altered my mind before the age <br /> of 10. My private world was one of dreams where I could escape the reality of my parents <br /> discontent. Grandpa's log cabin in Highland Lakes was my sanctuary. Summers were spent <br /> dreaming as I walked two hunting dogs, rowed or swam long distances. I dreaded returning in <br /> September to the city and school. <br /> Creating art held my interest and imagination. Surrealism became my artistic escape hatch. <br /> My psychological surrealism, vividly revealed my life as I tried to make sense of it. To lighten <br /> my own mood & conjure up my own survival instinct, I then started to paint humorous <br /> costumed or au natural pets/endangered species situated in master paintings. <br /> Now, surrealism has lost its glow or perhaps I am now freed from my past. In the winter of my <br /> life, I have chosen a path into an abstract world. It continues the "art" challenge to see and <br /> think of subject matter, color and composition in a totally different way than previously. It <br /> frees my hand from the former intricate painting. My aim, however, has always been to bring <br /> joy or comfort the viewer and perhaps thus myself. These new abstract paintings are closely <br /> tied to our environment. I use color in pleasant patterns to evoke light and a mood. As Hans <br /> Hoffman said, "In nature light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. " <br /> This is what I'm attempting to do in my most recent abstract paintings and mono rints. <br /> z . <br /> ®r <br /> j5 <br /> l r F <br /> t <br /> 7i <br /> � I <br /> ,rte y' <br /> rr i F.r Iri{�1 <br /> �rrci#G}lo:f;i <br /> 11/10/2014 <br />