Katie McGuire – High Priestess Tarot

Description

Artist Statement

I usually paint homeless people, street musicians, or psychics. My work is influenced by the Symbolism in the tarot cards. I use cartoonlike drawing, and unrealistic colors to create a world oscillating between dreams and reality. I use spray paint, oil paint, and sometimes collage elements to create the picture. I use the way the paint is applied and the touch to transmit an emotion or feeling. My painting is emotional and expressionistic to show an emotion of the person or about the person that I am painting. My aim is to create an image of a mystical person in a mystical world. I am trying to paint their emotion, mood, soul, or aura. I work from photograph, but I try to let fantasy, and intuition take over the process when I am painting. My paintings are influenced by Expressionism, Surrealism, the primitive and childlike drawing of CoBra, Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Figurative, Beat Art and Symbolism.