“Fantasy - our desires, our hopes and glories - is more important to me than reality.”
~ Representational art depicts an image suggestive of a recognizable, existing form. The degree of naturalism, or truth to appearance, in the portrayal of the subject may vary.
~ Expressionism was an early 20th century movement in which artists emphasized the expression of emotion and inner experience through subjective rather than objective representations of a given subject. Formal composition and the realistic portrayal of a subject was replaced with highly abstract forms and symbolic colour. During the high point of Expressionism, artists were primarily based in Germany and Austria and include such artists as Wassily Kandinsky, and Franz Marc.
Representational Expressionism, a term that Terra Nova coined to describe her work, is an amalgum of these two ideas. Her paintings of intensified human figures describe delightful inner worlds. Her subject matter includes harmony, hope, joy, elation, majesty, glory, yearning, creation, acceptance and appreciation. Content that, she hopes, is uplifting and serves to inspire. This is her offering.
“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.” - Vincent van Gogh
When she paints, Terra Nova often feels that she is channeling, as though she is a conduit through which creation flows like love.
“Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.” - Vincent van Gogh
There is no direct symbolism in Terra Nova's artwork. Concepts are delivered via a subtle, emotive balance of facial expression, body posture, contrast, colour, line and form that may be interpreted in as many ways as there are viewers. This is an important aspect to her work. She insists that direct symbols, ones which can be easily defined, confine art where it should be as dynamic as life.
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