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Kathe Fraga

And Then There Was You

    About the Artist

    My nature narrative paintings are inspired by the romance of vintage  Chinoiserie, layered with pattern, botanicals, color and hidden motifs.  We live in a 110-year-old Bainbridge Island home built with barnacled  beach rock and weathered grey shingles. The old fir floorboards of our  home, milled from the surrounding trees, remind me on a daily basis of  the love and gentle patina of time—the sound and scent of the forest.  With their decay and rebirth, they send their message to my art as I  explore how the fresh beauty of the “new” evolves, over time, into  something far more interesting and dramatic. Worn surfaces and  distressed textures combine to create a sense of something soft and  lovely and familiar; but yet, I feel the need to add a bold swath of  color to add the modern and unexpected. It’s a resting place for the  eye, a welcome peaceful voice as something reinvented emerges: gentle  old meets dynamic new.

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