Vanessa Mitter – Let the stars plummet to their dark address

These paintings are part of a series. The intimate scale here demands close looking, and engagement from the viewer. Capturing what might seem incidental is crucial to me, for these paintings. That which is sometimes seen, happened upon, but forgotten about in the conscious memory, but held somewhere in the unconscious realm, has a particular hold for me. The intense light at a certain time of day, dawn or daybreak, flooding through branches, leaves and flowers has a central mystery that is, perhaps, impossible to capture. Those seemingly incidental experiences, which are transient, drive my making of these paintings.