In the Sunspot paintings, I was thinking about the phenomenon of electromagnetic activity that occurs on the sun, and about how little is known about its cyclical occurrence of increased activity approximately every eleven years, or how its radiant energy effects us, even as this phenomena remains central to our physical world and reality. The dark monochromatic color schemes that I have chosen in these paintings heightens this mysterious phenomena, as I viewer is not quite sure what it is that he/she is looking at.
Leighnor’s pictures are abstractions in which materials- watercolor and resin- and process determine much of the visual outcome. Yet her pieces irresistibly suggest astronomical photographs: infrared images of sunspots or views of distant nebulae in negative.
