One thing that I focus on the most, in my paintings, are patterns. Growing up, I enjoyed experimenting with shapes and how I could build around those shapes, similar to mandalas. I like to take simple, everyday objects and use them as my subjects in my paintings. I lay out the objects in a way that creates a new design. I let the pieces speak to me and how they want to be represented, almost like a non-verbal, yet very personal conversation I’m having with the subject. This is what I like to call my meditative process. It’s like a constant hum inside my head that keeps me going.
My main purpose of choosing scarves was for their complex, diverse patterns and multitude of colors. They also provide a nice looseness that makes it easy to warp and change. I wanted something I could easily blend, layer together and create an explosion of color. They represent warmth, femininity, comfort, and freeness. Like a lot of my pieces, I chose to allow the scarves to fall off the edges of the canvas. I wanted the pieces to only show the subject because they are the only thing that matters. As Georgia O’Keeffe has once stated, “…I’ll paint what I see, what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.” I feel my work has this same concept.
Each one of my scarf paintings has a different attitude. They possess their own personality. Each work has a new set up and some of the props took longer to design and are much more constructed while others are organic and natural and in a state that didn’t have a formal arrangement. I found that these various designs and the size play on the mood of each piece.
- Amanda Logan
Free-Flowing, 2019
Oil on canvas
20” x 16”
$275
Prim and Proper, 2019
Oil on canvas
11” x 14” x 1.5”
$190
Coffee-Time Conversation (self-portrait), 2019
Oil on canvas
20” x 16”
$275
Angled Spectrum, 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
11” x 14”
$175
Maelstrom, 2019
Oil on canvas
31” x 33”
$650