Landscapes in Flux

My paintings are landscapes in flux, punctuated by change. They represent memory, subconscious thoughts, discovery and observation. I see human drama reflected in nature. My trees and clouds are anthropomorphic forms, representing relationships. They lean against each other like lovers, friends. Branches cross, tangle, push, repel, or flee.

Color is the spiritualized atmosphere; the painting’s intuitive, emotional life. The color is generally high keyed and active with affinities to the spiritualism of the romantic era, giving them a feeling of nostalgia, or time lost, combined with chemical qualities found in contemporary art. There is also reference to Luminism, but my approach carries the genre from representing a romanticized version of the world to an expression of a private, inner world.

My mission is to invent a world, personal and autobiographic, narratives in which the viewer is invited to enter in and create meaning. My paintings are charged with the sense of the fleeting moment. I believe these paintings have a physical depth as well as spiritual. One can look into them, much like looking into a deep pond, or into one’s own soul.

Visionary Expressionist

Ava Day is an accomplished New York artist working in a blending of contemporary and traditional styles. She paints with archival oil paints in a gestural manner onto linen, canvas or wood. She is a painter of dream landscapes, a highly suggestive art, rendered with an intensity of color. Her subjects include trees, fields, glens, skies, horizon lines, bodies of water, shadows, and light.

The art of Ava Day expresses inner experience. Art as an idea made concrete through imagery, abstracting ideas from circumstances and condensing them in an image. Her paintings bridge a gap between depiction of inner conflict, and at the same time reveal a moment that stopped, forever.

In Ava Day’s landscapes there is an attempt to restore our sacred connection to the earth. As civilization wanes, nostalgia spreads like a mist, allowing only glimpses of thickets, trees or skies. An undeniable presence appears, as the underlying vibrancy of life is made visible and reinforces our sense of oneness with the worlds of spirit and nature. All things are invested with symbolic meaning, expressing the invisible or intangible, revealing immaterial or ideal states. Always concerned with the human condition her work looks beyond our mundane circumstances, towards a spiritual stirring for enlightenment.