Painting is like theatre. In my life, the two are inexorably linked. They are worlds I move between. Process, character and light. Color, form and performance. For me, it’s blue, I cannot leave it aside. Blue pervades all memory. The blue of Delft, the murky indigo of the creek by our house, the lakes of Michigan, the aquamarine of my daughters’ eyes. My mother’s eyes. Water and sky. Water which my thoughts crave and imagination fears - losing sight of land. I view the tangibles and the vastness of nature in abstract. My imagery seeks to delineate form and alter focus, creating an atmospheric sense of place and time.

Jane Cooper