"I'm often asked what I call my unique style of art. While on a field trip to The Philadelphia Museum of Art as a teenager, I walked into a Pop Art exhibit and was instantly mesmerized by the bright colors and bold imagery. Growing up on a lively farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, my creativity was fed by my parents' ever-increasing folk art collection of colorful Haitian and Mexican art, local primitive landscapes, and early American ancestor portraits. Pop Folk Art is a combination of my favorite and most influential types of art.
I have sketchbooks full of the inspiring Maine places I’ve visited, and I use those as well as my imagination to create my art. I enjoy the challenge of looking at a complex landscape and simplifying it down to its essence through color, form, and shape. Influenced by color theorist Josef Albers, I work with the visual effects of color relationships to achieve space and depth. I choose my palette once I return to my studio and reflect on how the place made me feel.
I paint in acrylics on birch art panels. Recently incorporating a table saw into the mix, I’ve been exploring my love of shapes in 3D form by designing, cutting, and judiciously incorporating the 3D elements into my paintings.
I graduated from George School, a Quaker School in Newtown, Pa., and majored in Fine Arts at Trinity College, Hartford, Ct. I studied illustration at the Parsons School of Design." --Page Eastburn O'Rourke
Page Eastburn O'Rourke is represented by the Portland Art Gallery of Maine. View her latest work:
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