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artist:

Erika Lee Sears

date:

Sunday, April 26, 2009

medium: oil colors
website: erikaleesears.com
bio: Erika Lee Sears is a self-taught painter with a lifetime of experience. Her passion for exploring new styles and original approaches is evident with what she creates; though keeping the subject matter to the point allows her to reach out to the audience.
Each piece is a complexity of life, and how we often hold on to the memories of beauty, simplicity and serenity. She will combine these feelings with a common theme or emphasis for a piece, and then let it evolve organically.
Her work would be best described as dynamic, explorative and effervescent as it often makes use of pointillism and a wide colorful palette to take the viewer from a dreamy landscape to the limits of the surreal. What she creates is an extension of herself; a visual personification of her own life journey in both the emotional and the metaphysical sense.
on the importance of art:

"It's important to society because it changes the world and how the world is viewed."

images © Erika Lee Sears

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