artist statement

Painting, for me, is a universal and a personal experience.
As I travel I feel the limits of language and cultural differences.
Art takes us beyond limits and barriers:
it conjures universal themes,
it sparks memory,
it evokes the emotional complexity of an instant.

Intense colors provoke emotion;
overlapping lines create ambiguous spaces to establish a mood;
and a personal visual vocabulary
all come together to tell a story.
My work strives to break through boundaries
of time and culture
to capture
the universal nature
of individual human experience.

HOLLY SPRUCK
2003

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