Artist STatement

I've always been passionate about showing emotion through my medium. I remember being 8-years-old and constantly told, "You need to color in between the lines!" But I never did. I liked to blend colors and make my own lines, and I'm still doing this today.

I was born In Des Moines, Iowa and I now reside in South Bay, Los Angeles, California. I attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and later transferred to Berea College. I earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with a Concentration in Art from Berea College in 2015. I then moved to NC and was an early adopter for the resin art movement. I now work to share my raw, emotional paintings to start REAL conversions with my audience. What does it mean to preserve an emotion? I want you to FEEL when you see my work.

In this fast-paced world, we often by-pass the beauty swirling around us. We walk by the small flowers next to the sidewalk and the fleeting blooms on the trees. We forget to savor the colors cascading all around us. I want to capture this fleeting beauty and allow my audience to focus on it with purpose.

I am always experimenting and I’m currently working to sell my work online via NFTs.

I have two styles of art: "fluid" and "layering." The fluid style involves an intensive and precise resin process, while the layering style is a liberating process using chalk pastels and acrylics. With both styles, I aim to create miniature worlds where meaning grows as the viewer looks deeper into the canvas. I narrow in on an emotion, often one that's especially hard to verbalize, and express it through the interplay of mediums and colors.

My fluid style is the core of my floral resin work, where I preserve floral memories from weddings or funerals. I encase precisely dried florals into a beautiful resin mold.

My compositions often appear simple at first, and hard to grasp. But with the starting point of the piece's title, meaning emerges. The matching lines and angles slowly solidify; the designs beneath the paint become visible; and suddenly the viewer comes to see what I try to show: a feeling. Similarly, our own feelings are often deeper, more complex, and harder to grasp than we like to admit.

I'm especially interested in commissioned pieces for private homes. Finding where I can translate my client's visual and emotional wish into reality is a rewarding experience. If you're interested in learning more please contact me!

Thank you,
Alyssa Blount