Groundsite Image Gallery
Snake River, by Veronica Boyle
Artist: Fine Arts, KU
Medium: oil on paper
Height: 16.000"
Width: 20.000"
Keywords: Waterfront Park (Kaw River), North Lawrence
I desire not to create beauty but rather re-create, re-invent, and re-introduce beautiful things. I believe everything happens for a reason. Life is not about doing. But being. Everything I create is inspired by my past, present and future that has been sovereignly planned for me. I intend to teach creatively and innovatively in every environment my career in education takes me. I believe understanding and experience is pivotal in the total molding of one’s resolve and intellect. I want to tailor lessons to best fit my pupil’s needs and I will arrange topics to best serve the pupil’s interests. My experience in the art school will further serve my approach to curriculum and instruction because of the wide range of students, professors, cross cultural experiences and creative assignments I’ve been exposed to.
My pieces of art via oils, acrylics, recycled materials, photographs or ceramics are based on what I have experienced in the conscious and subconscious realm. My pieces are based on human life and nature, and its effects on the mind, heart and body.
In my landscapes I often use crude lines, blind contours and rich hues to show the inward reactions to scenes, landscape and people, but also incorporate the romantic idealization of nature in composition and stylization. My painting series of Perry Lake and the Flint Hills show this in texture and color choice of deep ochre, alizarin and pthalos. I use raw and ultra-realistic photographs of daily life in my desire to give perspective and insight into the creative and over-imaginative mind. As seen in my series Dancers, my ceramic pieces are evidence of a moment in time captured and relived in the movement of the clay and its fleeting malleability.
I firmly believe that education in the critical years of development is important. There are special issues and certain situations that required innovative and creative problem solving in which I believe my experience in the arts will prove beneficial.
Veronica Elaine Boyle