Melinda Hackett 

Sea Garden

June 8- July 17, 2015

ARTIST'S STATEMENT 

My paintings refer to organic space and unfixed time. To call them landscapes would be misleading since they are poetic inventions of my imagination, and reference the world of nature rather than depict it literally. One of my purposes in making paintings is to transport the viewer to a necessarily foreign place, where nature can be experienced without knowing it fully, and where reality is communicated through the senses. I am involved in the play of interior and exterior space. On one hand; interior, intimate, house, personal-and on the other; exterior, immense, universe, cosmos. My paintings represent both states, the near, the far, the view through a telescope, the view through a microscope, the sheltering sky, the intimate forest. My paintings create worlds full of images that float, hover, creep, spin, hang, roll or sleep in corners.

Melinda Hackett, MACBEAN, oil on canvas, 52 x 36 inches

Melinda Hackett, MACLAUGHLIN, oil on canvas, 52 x 36 inches

Melinda Hackett, MACIVER, oil on canvas, 52 x 36 inches