Featured Artist: Mariella Bisson Exhibition!

*Silver Spray Falls* by Mariella Bisson 54″ X 60″ Acrylic/Mixed Media

Mariella Bisson. Her paintings are a delight to the senses. Her waterfall paintings provide a sense of calm and hung in any room create a zen-like atmosphere, perfect for relaxing. You can almost hear the waterfall can’t you? Read on for the exhibition info…

The exhibition is at Momentum Gallery in Asheville, NC. My husband and I stopped in a few years ago, it’s a great space full of wonderful paintings. Mariella’s large paintings are stunning in this gallery.

The group show is called Enchanted Canopy and it runs through August 24, 2024. Read below, from the Momentum Gallery website:

ENCHANTED CANOPY GROUP EXHIBITION

27 JUNE – 24 AUGUST 2024

Enchanted Canopy is a themed group show set against the awe-inspiring Blue Ridge Mountains featuring works inspired by trees and forests. The collection includes work by artists Samantha Bates, Mariella Bisson, Rachel Campbell, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Terri Grant, Ann Harwell, Meg Lagodzki, Paul Messink, Casey Roberts, Laura Sellers, Bradlee Shanks, David Shingler, and more! This exhibition pays homage to the majestic beauty and vital presence of trees. From intricate details of branches reaching skyward to sheltering boughs that cradle life to deep roots that interconnect ecosystems, our curated collection features paintings and cyanotypes, quilts, original prints, and glass artwork. Enchanted Canopy seeks to inspire impactful conversations about the environment.

Mariella Bisson

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About the Artist (via Mariella’s website):

Artist’s Statement: My images of water, rocks and trees are filled with purposeful energy. Water is in constant motion, just as our own footsteps are endlessly moving, circling, coming and going, leaving and returning. Forces of nature compete and collide. Shapes within my compositions push against one another, intertwine, overlap and recede into space. Sunlight, as it plays across landscape forms, invites contrast in darkness and calls to the colors in shade and shadows. I achieve a deep three-dimensional space with the use of overlapping and application of colors – from light to dark with all stops in between and from warm to cool. I make my large mixed media paintings based on field drawings and watercolors painted on site in nature. I find essential shapes to convey my story and then apply paper collage glued to the linen over custom stretchers or on wood panels. An archival sealant is applied to prepare the paper to receive oil paint. My final surface of oil paint gives my work depth and finish.

I seek the universal in choosing my compositions. I want people to understand what they are seeing and relate it to their own lives – even subconsciously, feeling its energy in their own bodies or comparing the “characters” they see – rocks, trees, streams, roots, foliage- to aspects of their own experience, their own struggle for survival, their feelings of being rooted in home or routine, the flow and resistance they might encounter in life. We are all standing on one planet. The rivers of the earth and the clouds above are all one system, always changing, part of everyone’s experience, ever beautiful, in constant motion.

Be sure to stop in if you’re in the Asheville, NC area!