Tracy Phillips

It is through painting that I explore both my own nature and the natural world that surrounds me.  The intrinsic wholeness embedded in my relationship to nature, which I both embody, and am embodied by, become apparent as I follow color, forms, and images that emerge and guide. It is an intuitive process that combines elements sourced from seeing, memory, and reverie.  It is a process of getting lost and finding my way.  Trusting that I will find my way as themes come in and out of focus.  This often leads to something new being revealed and to a deeper personal understanding of the world around me, my sense of place, and my own history.

My new work resides in the spaces in-between. The past/present/future collide. The traditional landscape is fragmented and filtered through the landscape of the body and of the mind.   My thoughts are of time, memory, dream space, the body, nature, and environment.  I consider these to be landscapes of a different sort.