My artist inspiration for this week is Tiffany Bozic. About a year ago a friend of mine from Lorenzo de’Medici (the art school I attended in Italy), told me to check out this artist. I had been working on my animal portrait series, and she thought I might be interested. Bozic uses nature and animal imagery in a fresh way. You can read her bio here. I think her paintings are beautiful and full of emotion. Her titles allude to deeper metaphorical meanings such as No One’s Fault But My Own, Do What You Have To Do, or Sustenance. She works with washes of colors so her paintings have a soft, almost magical look and feel. I think they are brilliant and would love to bring more metaphor into my own work. There is an old interview with her on My Love for You‘s blog if you are interested in learning more. I highly recommend checking her out.
Also, I guess I should tell you, this week is going to be a short one for me, as Brian and I are flying to Seattle on Thursday. Hopefully I will manage a few posts during our trip, but we have really packed in the plans. We will be spending a little bit of time in Seattle, then heading to the Gorge to see two nights of Phish, then driving down to Yosemite for a couple of days to see a former Americorps teammate (haven’t seen her in four years!!), and then to San Francisco for our last few days. I can’t wait to escape the heat and humidity we’ve been having here in South Carolina and to revisit the Pacific Northwest.
