Are you a piler? At any given time, we live with at least half a dozen piles scattered among us– stacks of mail, bills, laundry, books, you name it. Sometimes one pile begets another pile and so on and so on. These paintings by Brigid Watson, with their heavily layered texture reminded me that the piles are simply the layers of life.
In Watson’s paintings, the layers of paint swirl together, overlap, sometimes just piling one right on top of the other. So it is with our own piles. We try to keep things neat and compacted but that just isn’t the way life works most of the time. The piles continue and soon we can only catch glimpses of what lies beneath. The layers add to the foundation, creating movement, color, creating life.
To see more of Brigid Watson‘s work, check out her Facebook page. I chose to focus on these textural paintings but I fell in love with everything she does!
All images are via the artist’s Facebook page.
