Who me?

Paige Davis is a multimedia artist currently living in Kansas City, KS. She earned her BFA in Visual Art from Clemson University, South Carolina.  

ARTIST STATEMENT

My early work was inspired by organic forms found in the mountains of the Carolinas and Tennessee; I sought to re-contextualize root systems and bulbs, emphasizing how these often unseen growth systems inhabit and lay claim to their environment. The resulting works were abstract interpretations of space and volume. Working with oil paint allowed me to enhance surface textures and create a lush backdrop for the imagined environment.

After moving to Kansas, I maintained my interest in subjects found in nature with exposure to the new Midwest landscape. This new “alien” environment shaped my hobbies, encouraging a different connection with nature based in primitive camping, fishing, hunting, and tracking that nurtured a more sensitive approach to observation and renewed appreciation of shifts in color and texture.

I currently enjoy working with illustration and drawing-based mediums such as graphite, gouache, ink, and markers that lend themselves to quicker studies and experiments. Embracing curiosity, I think of my drawings as specimens that have not yet been identified or unknown and unexplored locations. Each mark, highlight, and shadow begins to map out a larger space and creates volumes that can be grown and explored in a new way. I enjoy incorporating materials such as fly-fishing thread as a nod to my inspiration from camping and the outdoors as well as a tool with which to give the abstract form visual and spatial points of reference.

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Thanks for visiting my site and checking out my work!
Available for commissions.