The Big Chill, 36 x 48 inches, acrylic on canvas.
expressionist painters are known for their creativity and flexibility, and
for their devotion to process over product.
“I like the happy mistakes,” she says. “Once when I was painting, I
had a big jar of white gesso in my hand; it fell on the floor and shot up
onto the painting I’d been working on. I couldn’t believe it had hap-pened,
it too seriously because you can always paint over it. There are a lot of
mistakes and deletions in painting, so if you make a mistake, just paint
over it!”
Creating unique, collectible pieces and monumental, emotionally
charged nonobjective paintings, Vineyard is an artist whose work will
surprise, excite and engage.
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shade of shockingly vibrant red, the artist calls attention to the flat-ness
of the canvas and creates movement and contrast through large
swaths of color and a subtle layering of paint.
In “The Big Chill,” Vineyard utilizes a complex system of mark-mak-ing,
washes, layering and paint removal. She combines this variety of
brushstroke and paint quality with a high-contrast color palette of icy
purples and blues and brilliant shocks of bright red and orange. This
dramatic technical style both calls attention to the flatness of the can-vas
and encourages the viewer to engage emotionally with the piece.
One of Vineyard’s strengths is her ability to embrace the unex-pected
and adapt to accidents during the creative process. By embrac-ing
the medium as the defining characteristic of their work, abstract
but I thought I’d try to make something out of it. I never take
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