Michelle H. Harrell
In my art, I search to capture both the sense of place and the physical mosaic of brushstrokes and interplay of colors. I use heightened color to create an emotional intuitive response to highly personal subject matter, often landscapes of my childhood or heritage. Light saturated with color creates sense of place in both my memory (my emotional response) and the atmospheric effect of season and time of day. I want to stir the same feelings in the viewer as I associate with a particular place. I have loved to paint since I was a child but find that printmaking offers me the opportunity for endless combinations of color juxtaposition.
