Monica Miller Link
Fine Art

The two-foot square is my space to find what happens to shapes and colors as day moves against night and together they travel the seasons. The paintings are oil on board. Before this, most of my work was in watercolor, based on nature but filtered through a post-modern sensibility, many of them collaged. Now my studio is in the woods alongside a babbling brook, and the past decade has been devoted to a series of oil paintings, all two-foot square, of this place.

This body of work is a conversation with pigment, brush, light and season. A question from Summer is answered by Autumn’s naked reveal. Winter gossips about Spring. To show what I see, I select from the changing view (it is always changing, especially when very still) and hold this keepsake in my mind’s eye to compare with other observations. The gist is something about the sacred and the mundane. I do not understand and so I open a new space to get lost in the woods and find my way through, again.