Norma Fisk
Artist’s Statement — Reflections of Mind
I came to art a few years following a Ph.D. in English Literature and after several years of college teaching in the field. I had read the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and wanted to pursue non-verbal expression. I began to study watercolor with Sarah Riley, then Land, at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. I loved working with Sarah because I felt we had a common vision, that and the fact that she encouraged me and “gave me my head”.
I had seen a few pieces by Paul Jenkins and read some of his writing. I wanted to try my hand at a Zen-like approach to watercolor. I developed a combination of watercolor pencils and watercolor paints on paper that I had sprayed initially. What I was attempting to render on paper was the feeling I had, an initial feeling-connection I made with the model in her setting. The practice was to stay with the feeling, to hold it within consciousness, picking the color, the line and the washes that felt true to that state of mind/feeling. I always liked the models and was friends with many of them. It was the feeling relationship, the essence of that feeling emerging in the almost suspended moment(s) of the session that I was trying to capture.
- Norma Fisk
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