Finding the Inner Landscape

The journey and discovery of being an artist is both terrifying and exhilarating. So much of the process is weeding through the mental distraction to find the heart of what you want to say. Now, in this time of a global pandemic, the angst is high and yet we are given a time to be quarantined at home with lots of time to think, to be ….and hopefully to be creating.

A gift that I have been given is to be able to take some zoom classes. I was happy to participate in a class by the artist, Robert Liberace in drawing which has brought me back to working in looking at the human body and enjoying charcoal. A masterful teacher and having this time set aside shifted some things for me and now I have been engrossed with faces and the emotion that they convey. I realize that this is something that runs through my work, trying to discover the inner landscape of my subject, and communicate that to the viewer.

I had a huge compliment this week. I was randomly looking at my home feed on facebook and found a post that included one of my art pieces from twenty years ago. This is what the post said,.

“This is the most treasured piece of art done by my good friend, Kat Logan, who watches the world around her and shares it with those of us who are less patient or with eyes less lucky”

I was so moved to read that. It makes it all so worthwhile.

Maine Coast Aerial, oil pastel, 2000