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Jacqueline Rieder Hud
Artist Statement
My paintings are fusions of imagery from conscious and unconscious states. They express personal inner growth through cogent manifestations of dreams and wakeful intuitive flashes. As I move through a landscape or work with my ranch animals, there are moments that hold me, encounters that seem to pull me into the rhythm of the universe itself. I have recorded such moments in journals that I have kept for over twenty years.
This process of going inward to intuit the way to one’s personal vision, to the creative radiance, has a tonality of wildness and surrender to it. I see this dynamic within the psychic cauldron as a mirror of the instinctual forces expressing themselves in continuum in the Wholeness of Nature in the larger Wilderness without.
The language of the Soul is a metaphor. Out of the chaos of sitting with the eternal language of Dream and the numinous energy that comes in with that, a level of transformation occurs and emerges in paint. The animals in landscape are that, but they are also symbolic of a bridge between psyche and viscera.
I feel a sense of union
with animal spirits and an admiration for their
rhythmic interaction with their environment, a
rhythm that Man as Animal has long forgotten. I
long for the Human heart and mind to engage the
intrinsic value of wild places. Sit in
stillness, take a breath, reflect upon what man
as spe
“The energy that we bury is the energy that will eventually become our salvation.”
-Marion Woodman
blue rumble_the invitation
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Painting the Wild
cies has wrought upon Mother Earth.
