Annie Reid
What is your favorite art medium to work in, and why?
“The Chariot” a Tarot as Muse card by Annie Reid.
Gouache, pigment, drawing and painting, plus traditional and digital oil. Really, I work in whatever medium best replicates the immediate inspiration and vision.
When did you first figure out that art was important to you?
I never knew it wasn't important to everyone. I learned from my grandfather as soon as I could hold a pencil and brush.
Who is your art mentor?
Women artists who would not let themselves be limited by the gender barrier including Georgia O'Keeffe, Remedios Varo and locally, Helen Vatcher. The inner visions and creative legacy of Morris Graves. Too many others to list, including Nature.
Finish this sentence: My art is my...
My art is my attempt to express the collision between spirit and manifest, where 'the all else' drops away and wavelengths of light and color transform the very air to a purity of wisdom and vision.
What advice would you offer someone just beginning their exploration of their own artistic self?
Who am I to give advice? The law of the universe is to expand and create. Be the creative light that you are. You will find it is more difficult to withhold that gift than to express it.
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