Diane Ayott
Artist Statment
My painting reveals an involvement with the contemporary language of abstraction and is informed by many years of art making. Combinations of markings — dots, dashes, lines, slashes, circles, ovals and loops — folded into layers focus on overall spatial patterns and color shifts.
There is a deeply felt synthesis between the personal and the pictorial within my work. Committed to a visual language composed of a variety of marks and layered paint surfaces, I roll, scrape, brush and squeeze paint into the various layers of my works on paper and paintings. Skins of color and the accrual of information over time combine to create the works of art.
Most recently, the intensity of color relationships has deepened, generating stronger spatial depth within the images. Even as the work evolves in organic complexity, formal concerns remain a critical part of the process.
Through all of these processes, I allow the accumulation of thought, with its emotional qualities and its logic, to be expressed. Pleasure in the visual is made clear in my work and invites repeated viewing.
Artist Biography
Diane Ayott has exhibited extensively in the New England area and abroad. Recent one-person exhibits include Moment to Moment, New England Currents at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA, curated by Katherine French, Director of the Danforth Museum; and Defining Surface, at HallSpace in Boston, curated by John Colan. The latter exhibition was positively reviewed in the February–March, 2006 issue of Art New England. Her work was also included in the Cambridge Art Association’s National Prize Show, juried by Cheryl Brutvan, Beal Curator of Contemporary Art at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Her paintings are represented in many private, contemporary collections.
Slow Thoughts
oil on 2 papers, 16 X 22 ½”
Long Questions
oil on 2 papers, 16 X 22 ½”
Twice Forgiven
oil on 2 papers, 11 ¾ X 22 2/3”
