| Vicki Ingham Oil Paintings Des Moines |
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“Vicki Ingham’s paintings are depictions of sunlight laved over nature. She paints still lifes and landscapes in rich tones that ebb and flow with viscous certainty. High-key yellows illuminate streets and rooms. The cool blues and lavenders of oblique shadows provide a structural vitality that is arrestingly attractive.” James R. Nelson, The Birmingham News, Sunday, June 17, 2001 Artist's Statement
Although my primary interest in painting landscapes has been to capture the quality of remembered light, the landscapes of Italy offer another attraction, in addition to the light. The land, particularly in Tuscany, has a musical quality, with forms weaving together harmoniously in an infinitely satisfying way. The rolling hills evoke the look of solid muscle covered with velvet skin. I strive to find that music on the canvas, to convey with color the rolling, muscular shapes of the land in all their solidity and poetry.
I work from photos as well as from sketches made from life. I use the photos to capture compositions of patterns of light and shadow, which I then interpret in oil on canvas. Another body of work focuses on women—a woman—and the way clothing and accessories can imply a story, a persona, a history. The figure in her setting seems to suggest a narrative, but I leave it to the viewer to decide what the story is.
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