My art portrays my passions for shapes and color and the natural world around us. I paint based on my observations while out in nature, combining direct memories from photos with the emotional impressions left with me. My tendency is to choose colors and feeling over form, which gives my work its whimsical abstract quality. Colors are chosen intuitively, often not what the eye sees. I aim to capture the viewer with my colors and feelings of the familiar, leaving them with a fresh new impression through which to view their world. Recently I have been working mainly with encaustic paint molten beeswax and damar resin. I am drawn to it’s luscious presence, as well as it’s translucence and sculptural qualities. www.darlamyersart.com