Alison Cuomo

Nature stuns me with its unfathomable immensity. I am constantly drawn to learn from it, and am continually taking in new aspects that I hadn’t been aware of before, or that have new meaning for me. I love walking around my nature-rich neighborhood. Paintings and monotypes become landscapes that I inhabit while working. Each piece surprises me, transporting me into its own visceral world. When I am painting, wet paper and paint free me to dive in. Flow and constant change pull me forward. Rather than pictures of things, the artworks are a record of my engagement with the natural world, and with the process I am involved in. Both the paintings and the monotypes are unique and irreproducible, and while I can add layers, I cannot change what has gone before. I relish the immediacy of the processes. I feel connected to something larger than myself when I am working, that everything is already here, that my job is to be present. Art making is what I do with the awe I feel.