Blogging is my lifeline

Damn it's hard to start painting when I tell myself that I won't be blogging about my Journey into Intimacy Series anymore.

It feels like a void is opening up and I'll just keep falling.

It seems as though this blog is like a lifeline to the world for me. Without it I feel lost and even sapped of the energy necessary to start painting.

WOW! I had no idea how important it was! Just knowing that my poetic ramblings pre-painting had to be heard, or at least put out there is important (but with my Mercury in Leo, I shouldn't have been  surprised!)

The fact is I have to paint and print and write and blog because it makes me feel good and strong and healthy.

Portfolio: Journey Into Intimacy

2011 Journey Into Intimacy

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2010 Journey Into Intimacy

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2009 Journey Into Intimacy

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Artist Statement

I am interested in exploring contradictions abstractly by juxtaposing opposites to express multiple truths. Each painting and print is an exploration of intimacy, vulnerability, raw emotion and healing in line with the Divine Feminine.

The watery, responsive nature and quick drying time of acrylics expresses fleeting moods and fiery passions in brilliant color that blends, bleeds, drips and flows onto smooth, gessoed silk and wood.

The paintings are just large enough to capture huge and overpowering emotions using unusual tools like garden rakes, house painting brushes or my body pressed into the surface.

Nothing is pre-planned or sketched. The process itself leads the way no matter how long it takes. Sometimes one stroke can take hours of looking.

I hope this series inspires the discovery of hidden beauty.

Kathy Crabbe

Resume Blog: art-in-progress

Raw in the Sea of Love

As I focus on the painting I block all else out although the trees shimmer and beckon inviting my poetical mind to play. I rest my head, my brain heavy, calling upon my stillness. Eyes closed, I prepare to emote, to be vulnerable, sexual and raw in my mark making. To sing, to live, to be fully alive, awake and free.

"Down here in the Sea of Love where everyone would love to drown." ~ Fleetwood Mac, Sara

AbEx

"I have never thought that abstract painting was non objective. Abstract Expressionism is about attitude, change, and ideas. Non objective paintings are simply decorative. Without concepts, paintings become another medium that is described by the materials used, like ceramics or fiber art." ~ Richard Jackson, Art Forum Magazine, Summer 2011

I want to fall in love again with each painting I do.

Finding Heaven

Every day of art-making is a Facing of Myself and that is NOT easy. I have a lot to say that can only be expressed thru making marks (art-making). I paint abstractly, creating a new space, an expression of the Divine Feminine, an expression of being female in a patriarchal world; opposites.

"And under every star I'm finding Heaven." ~ Jann Arden, Looking for it (Finding Heaven)