Sandra Offutt - Oil Painter: Landscapes, Marine Scenes and Still Life
“Dream possible dreams,” the Rev. Forrest Church recommended. My “possible dreams” are to spend as much time, energy, and resources as I can to translate what I see and feel about the world around me onto canvas or linen, using oil paint.
Trees, fields, strong shadows or colors, and water (often with boats) are the stuff of my dreams. During good weather I paint these subjects out of doors (en plein air) near my Pacific Northwest home; I also paint for several months each year on an island in the Greek Aegean. In the winter I follow threads of colors and shapes from the plein air paintings into new, and a little more abstract, territory. That’s when I also paint still life subjects, usually from my kitchen or closet.
My portfolio features the results of pursuing my dreams, but as C. P. Cavafy put it in “Ithaca,” it is the pursuit that enlivens me and fills my soul, rather than the destination or the product.
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