"In 2016 I saw an exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 'Nature and the American Vision.' I was inspired by the exhibit, which displayed works by some of the greatest artists of the Hudson River School. I was inspired by the portrayal of landscape and by the attention to natural detail. But I have also always been interested in the visual techniques employed by the impressionists and neo-impressionists. So, I began working towards capturing that depiction of landscape, including scale, vibrance, and detailed natural features, using a technique that infuses the artwork with a soft visual textural element."
- Ann Maureen Meyer
While Ann Maureen Meyer's artwork is inspired by the aesthetic of nature, the environment, and quiet places of natural refuge, her work also explores the representation of landscape using a surface texture that not only unites the visual elements of the depicted scenes--land, sky and flora, for example--but also hints at more universal interrelationships as well.
Technically, while her work is inspired by the sublime landscape paintings associated with the Hudson River School, her artwork additionally re-investigates impressionistic and neo-impressionistic methods of light depiction and the artistic application of medium, with an emphasis on a harmonic visual surface. Her drawings and paintings are meticulously worked by hand utilizing a time-intensive and densely textured pointillism technique that portrays imagery by means of oil or acrylic medium-based chromatic mesh. This hand worked layering and weaving of marks, though static, advances an impression of aura and resonance in its depiction of landscape. The variegated mist of color and value also represents natural settings, and their inherent gentle energies, with a unique visual softness.
Because of the time involved to create each piece, these artworks are generally small. Within their reduced formats, however, these are detailed, concentrated works, in oil and acrylic mediums, that combine a representation of the beauty of common natural landscape with the aesthetic of intricate, freehand artistry.
