TRACY NORS
BRITISH b: 1964
BRITISH b: 1964
I DON'T PAINT ANY ONE PLACE AS IT EXISTS, AS A LITERAL INTERPRETATION, AS THIS DOESN'T INTEREST ME - TRACY NORS
acrylic canvas and limited edition prints on paper
Tracy has a masters degree in Visual Arts. She lives and works in Rye in the UK where she continues to develop her practise.
Her work has been exhibited both in the UK and Northern Europe and is in private collection in the UK the USA and Europe.
She is essentially a colourist and uses both acrylic and oil bars on canvas and wood panels.
She hopes to capture the atmosphere of a place so that the viewer is engaged on an emotional as well as visual level and where some elements are left open to the viewer to interpretation.
I walk in nature everyday. The Coastline of East Sussex is the inspiration for my expressive landscape paintings.
I know the place very well but the mood and atmosphere changes every time walk there. There is so much sky and glimpses of sea amongst the cliffs and fields.
Colour is of huge importance to me as it has the ability to evoke many emotions.
I begin in an intuitive way, making marks from memory that are a reflections of my experiences on my walks.
I work expressively and spontaneously up to a point where the painting starts to form a sense of place but is also abstracted.
The application then becomes more directed. I build up layers by adding and subtracting, imparting details of a place which are also open to interpretation from the viewer.
Sometimes there may be more figurative elements appearing; hints of figures, boats or buildings.
Recent paintings move further away from the reality of realism in the landscape towards abstraction and contain both fragments of the real and the imagined. Shapes and colours are used to produce painterly improvisations that are my perception of the world around me. Tracy has a masters degree in Visual Arts. She lives and works in Rye in the UK where she continues to develop her practise.
Her work has been exhibited both in the UK and Northern Europe and is in private collection in the UK the USA and Europe.
She is essentially a colourist and uses both acrylic and oil bars on canvas and wood panels.
She hopes to capture the atmosphere of a place so that the viewer is engaged on an emotional as well as visual level and where some elements are left open to the viewer to interpretation.
Her work has been exhibited both in the UK and Northern Europe and is in private collection in the UK the USA and Europe.
She is essentially a colourist and uses both acrylic and oil bars on canvas and wood panels.
She hopes to capture the atmosphere of a place so that the viewer is engaged on an emotional as well as visual level and where some elements are left open to the viewer to interpretation.
I walk in nature everyday. The Coastline of East Sussex is the inspiration for my expressive landscape paintings.
I know the place very well but the mood and atmosphere changes every time walk there. There is so much sky and glimpses of sea amongst the cliffs and fields.
Colour is of huge importance to me as it has the ability to evoke many emotions.
I begin in an intuitive way, making marks from memory that are a reflections of my experiences on my walks.
I work expressively and spontaneously up to a point where the painting starts to form a sense of place but is also abstracted.
The application then becomes more directed. I build up layers by adding and subtracting, imparting details of a place which are also open to interpretation from the viewer.
Sometimes there may be more figurative elements appearing; hints of figures, boats or buildings.
Recent paintings move further away from the reality of realism in the landscape towards abstraction and contain both fragments of the real and the imagined. Shapes and colours are used to produce painterly improvisations that are my perception of the world around me. Tracy has a masters degree in Visual Arts. She lives and works in Rye in the UK where she continues to develop her practise.
Her work has been exhibited both in the UK and Northern Europe and is in private collection in the UK the USA and Europe.
She is essentially a colourist and uses both acrylic and oil bars on canvas and wood panels.
She hopes to capture the atmosphere of a place so that the viewer is engaged on an emotional as well as visual level and where some elements are left open to the viewer to interpretation.