New & Available Paintings, 2024 The Vanitas Series
This series of seven contemporary vanitas paintings explore the relationship between the material and the spiritual through the use of symbolic objects.
Traditionally this genre was used in history for meditation on mortality, materiality, and meaning.
In these works, I have contrasted antique and contemporary objects for the same end: to provide opportunity for contemplation on cycles of life alongside questions of mortality, ethics, and balance between intellectual or material pursuits.
Pandemic Series: 2021-2023
This series of paintings celebrate the local flora of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Small gems of color, these compositions present blooms of the southern garden with generations of vessels and objects collected around the world. The intersection of atmosphere with an object and how we perceive the accompanying relationships of value, color and form allow endless contemplation. The simple beauty that surrounds us exists anywhere we look if we open our senses; in flowers, colors of the air, the light or darkness of the sky. As we allow the experience of inspiration we enter a unique intersection between art and reality. These intersections are abstract, infinite, and come alive through a dialogue of differences.
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Artist’s Statement:
I see painting as a meditation: an exploration of relationships I encounter through observation and experience. I find greatest inspiration working from nature; considering innate dualities as they move through varied passages of color, meaning, and form. The resulting images reflect the search for beauty as a journey through the fluidity of perception, the passing of time, and the structure of change.
Figurative Painting
Pictured: Saskia at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, 2012
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Academic Painting Processes I: Figure Studies from Direct Observation (Classical and Realist techniques)
Pictured: Saskia with her work at the Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2014
Academic Processes II: Nature Morte
Pictured: Saskia painting at the Peabody Historical Society, Peabody, MA 2010
Academic Processes III, Plein Air Landscape in oil
Pictured: Saskia Painting Harvard Bridge. Boston, MA 2012
