Collection: Jane Lawton Baldridge

ARTIST STATEMENT 

I have had a fascination, maybe an obsession, with water for as long as I remember. Watching my childhood sand castles fall to the continued impertinent rolling in of waves and tide captivated me. It was but a miniature version of what happens all around the globe.  Much of the coastal areas of the planet have reason to watch their own erosion, subsidence and the rising tides reshape their world.  

I believe that people who do not go out on the ocean and witness it’s power and beauty may not understand what happens with the rushing water borne on a storm. Currents, tides and runoff change the land, scouring some here, depositing some there. It can be beautiful or terrifying. This can manifest into the magic of an ox-bow forming in a river or a beach house undermined and falling into the ocean. These are the things that inspire my work. 

 
I greatly admire both Georgia O’Keefe and Judy Chicago for using sensuality in their creations to help communicate their point to the audience. I would like to think that I am following their lead, un-afraid. 
 
I create layers of water-based color using a wide assortment of tools.