ÿþÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>Rosemary Broton Boyle | Artist, Scavenger</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/stylesheet.css"/> <!-- /* <script type="text/javascript" src="../../js/cufon-yui.js" ></script> <script src="../../js/archer.font.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> Cufon.replace('h3'); </script> <script src="../../js/archer.font.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> Cufon.replace('h1') </script> */ --> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../js/cufon-yui.js" ></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../js/archer.font.js" ></script> <script type="text/javascript"> Cufon.replace('h3'); Cufon.replace('h1'); </script> </head> </head> <body> <div class="wrapper"> <div id="head"> <h1 id="logo"><a href="http://rosemarybrotonboyle.com">Rosemary Broton Boyle</a></h1> <a id="contact" href="mailto:rosemarybrotonboyle@gmail.com">Email me</a> <h3>Boston, Santa Fe, Truro | rosemarybrotonboyle@gmail.com | 617 851 8004</h3> </div> </div><!--END .WRAPPER--> <div class="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <div class="column_140"> <ul id="main_nav"> <li><a href="../../art/years/" title="Work">Work</a></li> <li><a href="../index.html" title="Personal">Personal</a></li> <li><a class="title" href="../index.html">Bio in brief</a></li> <li><a class="active title" href="index.html">Statement</a></li> <li><a class="last_title" href="../resume.pdf">Resume (PDF)</a></li> <li><a href="http://rosemarybrotonboyle.com" title="Home">Home</a></li> </ul> </div><!--END COLUMN_140--> <div class="personal"> <h1>Statement</h1> <p> I don t really see myself so much as a painter anymore but as a collector, arranger, designer, inventor, composer and exhibitionist. My singular goal seems to be exploration. I begin with specific intentions, ideas and thoughts but as my thoughts and ideas formulate and the colors and compositions materialize , the materials themselves carry me, along with my preconceptions, to an unknown world and carry the pieces off to a life all their own. The act of creating begins to dictate a whole new visualization with color and design relationships far from my intended compositional structure. The decisions of what to keep and what to change become a puzzle of sorts, allowing me to develop the ideas, discard them or simply arrange them adding and subtracting elements along the way.</p> <p>Much of the content of my work evolves from a desire to communicate my affections toward the aged and antiqued surfaces that I find so sumptuous. For me the works are a means of expressing admiration. The materials I use are simple and commonplace; acrylics, oils, wood, found and weathered objects, house paints, plaster, masking tapes, sand, etc. And in the distressing and manipulating of the materials, I try to exude a mystery in the surfaces, challenging the viewers to come  up close and personal with each piece in hopes that they too will find and feel a sense of reflection and lost memories.</p> <p>My purpose, simply stated, is that I have none, other than the process itself. The work is justified by its mere existence and any association to the world of reality appears to me only at completion. I prefer that my work stands alone as a means of contemplation and not as a mirror.</p> </div> </div><!--END #CONTENT--> </div><!--END .WRAPPER--> </body> </html>