Wynn Creasy Fine Art, LLC

Artist’s Statement

     Using oil bars (oil paints in a semi-solid stick form) and oil pastels as my mediums of choice, as well as recent explorations in acrylic paints, and the wonderful medium of Silk Painting,  I am constantly exploring the fine line between drawing and painting.  I love to use alternating thick and thin layered vibrating lines of intense contrasting colors and smooth color washes to express the contour and vibrant energy of the earth around us. I work on paper, silk and  Masonite panels,  and in sizes suitable for framing for home and office.

     Having been born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, my love of nature and the contrasts of land and sky are illustrated in a painterly combination of color and line. My representational and abstracted landscapes are about expressing a sense of belonging, of safety, of home.  I draw you in and give you a sense of the majesty and the variety of the earth I inhabit in the Virginia countryside and the Appalachian Trail. Whether representational, or abstracted, all my paintings start with nature.  Favorite subjects are back roads, breathtaking sunsets that illuminate the mountains or leave the unusual shape of trees back lit in shadow, windswept meadows and pastures, the brilliant colors of fall, the quiet of winter, the freshness of spring, all leading you to wonder what is around the corner or how the sky will change next. In my paintings I try to recreate the emotions I feel when recalling a place….  The sultry heat of a summer afternoon, the soft light of a misty morning across a valley or open field, the layering of shadows under a clump of trees where I used to love to hide, the vastness and changeability of the skies over Virginia, or the bounty of nature’s produce here. I strive to give you a genuine sense of place while at the same time joy, of quiet beauty, of repose.

    The recent new series "Goddesses" has been a  return to the power of the feminine. These full - figured joyful and powerful totems hark back to a time when the mystery of life was worshipped and celebrated. 

     I have been most influence in my work by Ann Aves Martin (who studied with and was influenced by Wolf Kahn), Mr. Kahn’s teachings which grew out of his own studies of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950’s, the Impressionists with their study of the natural contrasts of light and shadow, and by Rothko with his studies of human response to color against color.