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Roxann Leibenhaut
As a representational artist, I am mostly interested in my immediate world - what I see everyday. I paint to express a thought or idea through shapes, colors and movement in a scene. What I choose to paint will show a viewer what I’m interested in. What I ignore is as relevant as what I emphasize.
For instance, a beach scene will contain perhaps several dozen figures as well as hundreds of pieces of equipment necessary for a day at the seashore. Blankets, umbrellas, food containers, reading material, toys. It’s not the individual items that
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"Beach People Sketch, Kee," Oil, 9x12 |
interest me or the spectacular views …it becomes the shapes and colors and how they relate to each other. The warm shape of an arm touching the cooler shape of a foot in the distance. The blue stripe of a towel projecting towards the cool shadow of the chair.
The landscape I choose to paint will mostly have the element of human involvement. I am not interested so much in the beauty of ‘natural landscape’ as the beauty of the ‘man-made’ objects and how they show a beauty of their own. There is nothing quite as beautiful and compelling to me as the telephone poles along the side of the road, the hard edges of a truck against the soft edges of the trees.
My goal is to simply present MY vision of the world. A world that contains all the seemingly confusing shapes and objects and show the balance and simplicity. In my world man-made is not an unpleasant thing. It is simply there to see.
Contact Info: rleibenhaut@gmail.com
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"Kekaha, Road to the Canyon," Oil, 16x20 |
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"Manu Road, Kekaha," Oil, 10x12 |
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"Waimea Rooftops," Oil, 11x14 |
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"Beach Surf, Kealia," Oil, 12x24 |
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Honorary Signature Members
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Danny Bushart
Judy B. Montagne
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