meet the artist:
Maureen Bolton

My work is an emotional response to my subject, and I express my emotions with color and light. I am not concerned if people get my work but that it gets them. I have always cried easily and found it to be embarrassing and a social liability. However, now that I am a full-time artist, I see it as a gift.

To me, painting is when an emotion has found its color and the color has found its stroke. Since I am a daily painter, it does not matter as much to me that I have painted well but more that I will BE well because I paint. I view the world in colors and shapes. In my work, I strive for a simple design with the fewest number of contrasting shapes and a strong sense of radiant light. I am a "colorist" at heart and I use color saturation as I interpret the light of a Plein Air scene.

I feel closest to the Divine when I am painting outdoors. Even when I am painting indoors in my Detroit and Northern Michigan studios, I am still seeking moments of grace that transcend my everyday worries. My studio paintings are frequently color fields full of a sense of place across their surface and depth.