KATHY MASON LERNER

Kathy Mason Lerner derives her inspiration from the quiet beauty and lush abundance in Marin County, where her home, located near a secluded area of the San Francisco bay, is surrounded by lush gardens. It is from this environment and it’s rhythm over time, through seasons of dormancy and rebirth, that she derives the
inspiration for her art.

Moved by a vision, Mason Lerner’s paintings re-explore a key theme, the garden, the woods, or the sea; and through this process of discovery, a work emerges through many layers of oil on canvas, in a rich spectrum of vibrant and pulsating color. Beginning as plein-air studies that are then finished in the studio, the
painting’s principal origins are rooted in the natural world. “The value of nature as our primary foundation,” is the leitmotif of her work.

“Brushstrokes transmit pure gesture…density is form and energy… colors are healing, and the picture must come to a place of peace or resolution with chaos and beauty.” “The light pastel hues I use have a healing effect on the mind and the core of the self: in the process of layering colors, I create a radiance for myself and the viewer. Flower petals, gemstones, rainbows and pigments are the only true colors the eye perceives. “I work on my paintings over a long period of time until they resonate. When everything works in a painting there is a special moment. This is an awakening or a transcendental sort of consciousness. The reason I keep on painting is to experience these moments of extraordinary reality.”
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