Driving at Night
20 x 24 - Oil
SOLD

Just Outside the Door
48 x 60 - Oil
SOLD

Sunrise to Sunset
36 x 48- Oil
SOLD

"I named each of these paintings by writing a haiku expressing my thoughts and feelings as I prepared my paintings. This process helped focus my thoughts into certain colors or words that I wanted to depict in painted form. The intention of impressionism is to capture the nuance of light without relying too heavily on specific detail, while imparting an emotional sense of place. The structure of haiku is a very short form of poetry, traditionally using a special word that evokes a season. The idea is to suggest rather than describe. Haiku poems strive to express the fleeting world of the spirit through the changes noted in nature. I have combined these two art forms to express how feelings can be represented through color. In both the poems and in the paintings, the color creates the emotion."

Cathy Carey uses color to express emotion on many levels. By using complementary colors next to each other, you create a heightened sense of each color. Red makes green more vivid and alive. Blue makes orange seem even spicier and purple makes yellow glow brighter. By underpainting the complements under my final layers I wanted to create a richness of color. I also used the temperature of the color to support the color on top. If it was a hot day, I underpainted orange under the sky to create warmth. If it was a cool day I used cool colors underneath to represent late times of day and cool times of the year.

An Artist's Reception for the "Impressions of Mission Trails" Show will be held Saturday April 7, 2002 from 10AM - 2PM at the Mission Trails Regional Park Nature Center. The show will be on display through Thursday, May 30, 2002.