From the Shadow, 20x16
“From the Shadow”, Christine Dryden
20” x 16”, oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
unframed
This painting in included in a juried exhibition, “Art as Autobiography”, at The VAPA Center, May 2025.
“From the Shadow” is a self-portrait painted in the driveway of a family cabin in West Jefferson, a place where I have been able to regularly retreat for painting and solitude. It is one of a series of Shadow Portraits painted that day, works that I’d always considered incomplete, but have been hesitant to continue, not wanting to obscure the energy of that first alla prima layer, and unclear on what direction I would want for a more “refined” painting. And so they’ve just kept me company in the studio.
And now, thinking about them through Jungian lens, these crude-yet-beautiful paintings are a perfect representation of an artist in the process of of EMERGING from the shadows. Her work is not done but she likes the reflection she sees on the pavement and in the paint.
“From the Shadow”, Christine Dryden
20” x 16”, oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
unframed
This painting in included in a juried exhibition, “Art as Autobiography”, at The VAPA Center, May 2025.
“From the Shadow” is a self-portrait painted in the driveway of a family cabin in West Jefferson, a place where I have been able to regularly retreat for painting and solitude. It is one of a series of Shadow Portraits painted that day, works that I’d always considered incomplete, but have been hesitant to continue, not wanting to obscure the energy of that first alla prima layer, and unclear on what direction I would want for a more “refined” painting. And so they’ve just kept me company in the studio.
And now, thinking about them through Jungian lens, these crude-yet-beautiful paintings are a perfect representation of an artist in the process of of EMERGING from the shadows. Her work is not done but she likes the reflection she sees on the pavement and in the paint.
“From the Shadow”, Christine Dryden
20” x 16”, oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
unframed
This painting in included in a juried exhibition, “Art as Autobiography”, at The VAPA Center, May 2025.
“From the Shadow” is a self-portrait painted in the driveway of a family cabin in West Jefferson, a place where I have been able to regularly retreat for painting and solitude. It is one of a series of Shadow Portraits painted that day, works that I’d always considered incomplete, but have been hesitant to continue, not wanting to obscure the energy of that first alla prima layer, and unclear on what direction I would want for a more “refined” painting. And so they’ve just kept me company in the studio.
And now, thinking about them through Jungian lens, these crude-yet-beautiful paintings are a perfect representation of an artist in the process of of EMERGING from the shadows. Her work is not done but she likes the reflection she sees on the pavement and in the paint.
