ARTISTS’ STATEMENT
March 14, 2009

Myrna Leigh Cohn

My paintings are contemporary reflections of an evolving journey through a typical life – an equal mix of beauty, joy and love, challenged by frustration, deprivation, fear and sorrow.

As a writer, I say that “everything is grist for the mill.” As a visual artist, I say, “the whole of my life (inner and outer, being and doing) is a catalyst to inform my work.”

My early works are representational (“Santa Fe Memories I,” Santa Fe Memories II,” “Purple Mountain,” “Myriad” and “Sharon’s Place”).

Works from the following period are abstract landscapes (“Fusion,” “Calm Within,” Sky 1,” “Spring Marsh” and “Autumn Marsh”).

Today, my work flows toward non-objective - art without representational links to a material world. Free access to right brain conceptualization, thinking without thought, frees me of the need to create representational landscapes. What I now create originates from the spiritual, from intuition, more about process and flow, color, form, texture and energy.

Individual lives remain fragile and fleeting. I will complete my life as an artist and educator whose soul is revealed in my action.