Micaela Marsden

Micaela Carr

I was the child of an artist/writer and a dreamer. I grew up surrounded by modern art: abstract expressionism, some figurative-fantasy work by artist/author Henry Miller, the tortured art of Bezalel Schatz depicting the horror of life under Nazi rule. My second mom was a potter who carved clay into geometric shapes, and drew upon the surfaces.

Art was something real, in my world, something you could touch.

At a young age, I was living in Sausalito, a wealthy enclave of Marin County, California. It was just before the Watts riots. Tension was building. Racism was playing out in the playground.

Drawing was my refuge from the tension, from the constriction of life. It helped to bridge the disconnect between my everyday life and the imaginative world of endless possibilities—my dreams.

I gravitated towards color, and painting naturally followed. I love trying to interpret what I see in front of me, seeing it transform into something else with a brush or a palette knife.

 

 

www.artrospection.com | www.mendocinofiguredrawingcollective.com
Please contact the artist for more information or to purchase a painting. email, 510-883-9116

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Italian Cypresses
oil/canvas 8"x10" $150
Nana's Bridge NFS
oil/board 24"x18"
San Donato Road
oil/canvas 12"x16" $375
Italian Cypress
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Blue Cypresses
oil/canvas 8"x10" $150
Red Sea
oil/canvas 10"x8" $100
Llama in Summer Hay
oil/canvas 16"x12" $475
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Stormy Cove
oil/canvas 10 "x8" $150
San Donato Winery
oil/canvas 10 "x8" $350
Hidden Stairs
oil/canvas 10 "x8" $250