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About the Artist

Brigitte Keller considers her painting to be a process of discovery, her themes inspired by a poem, conversation, or her own memory.

Signs and symbols (she prefers the word "forms") play an important role in Keller's paintings.

"Specific forms repeat each other, are bound to each other, are almost obliterated. Often a new form appears and negates the previous one.
A recurring theme in my painting is the flower as it relates to transcendence and permanence, to nature itself as organic and fragile."

Color and surface texture are important to Keller's painting. She uses a polymer egg / wax emulsion medium on canvas.
Although she over paints extensively, Keller applies each layer of paint thinly.
Employing this technique, she is able to retain the natural unevenness of the canvas surface.
The paint seems to be soaked into the canvas, creating a velvet - like surface, that allows each previous application of paint or drawn line to remain.

The compelling strength of Keller's finished compositions embody a silent dignity, their refined forms, and colors so perfectly matched as to suggest a kind of spiritual union.


Michael Culver
Director
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
Ogunquit, Maine

Brigitte has shown her works at
The Williams College Museum of Art , Williamstown, Massachusetts,
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit Maine,
The Currier Museum, Manchester, New Hampshire,
and in galleries in the US and Germany.
Her works are in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections.


© Brigitte Keller

 

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