KAY IVES Artist Statement "For several years now my work has focused on water, veering between abstraction and realism using luminosity and transparent layers of space. Recently, I have used both abstraction and realism in the same painting. I want to convey that the mind's eye is not singular, but richly layered. We view things simultaneously in fragmented nuance ways. My work reflects the intuitive, logical and spirit minds. The natural chaos of the lotus roots and random rocks is framed by the geometric logic of straight precise lines. The intuitive mind is found in the atmospheric transparent washes. I sometimes divide canvases into two or three distinct areas to mirror that richness as in "Blue" and "Cold River". I am attracted to water by its constantly changing nature. You can't pin it down: one moment it is clear, calm and blue and then suddenly it changes to white spray and raging force. Water is both reflective and transparent. As a long time salior of the New England coast and summer resident of the New Hampshire lakes area, I have spent many wonderful hours studying water. As the Zen mon Shunryu Suzuki said, "When you understand one thing through and through; you understand everything". Thus water and the skies are my teachers and where I am presently looking for wisdom". Kay Ives, Lotus 3, Oil on canvas, 30" X 30" next about schedule contact home off season exhibits