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Elizabeth Henderson
I seek to convey what is in my mind’s eye, some fragment of what’s in my field of vision, or what I see in dreams. I dream frequently of paintings, get up and make a sketch and then later can make it into a painting. I take my imagery from artifacts and architectures of many diverse cultures, countries and historical periods.
My art is mystical in that it seems to come from out of nowhere. An image comes to mind, I draw it, then another. The picture “comes to light,” develops as the photographic paper comes to light in the developing bath. The colors, values and chroma relationships develop in the same way.
My first influence was Paul Klee. I read “The Thinking Eye,” his theories about line and color, and compositional development. Also, I was influenced by Miro and Kandinsky. Then I began to look at Naïve and Folk Art, from which I took the idea that I could follow my own ideas. I developed a sort of lexicon of images, which I work from, change to suit my meanings. These are generally symbolic or simply suggestive.
