Claudia F.Everitt - As I See It

I enjoy exploring the energy or essence of a subject when creating my art. The subject might be a person, an animal, a place or an object.  Everything has its own particular aura and I love discovering what it is and then capturing it in my work.  In a living creature, this is called personality or even spirit.  In a landscape or still life, it's the essential feel of a location or thing.  The media and approach used can vary although I personally believe drawing to be a foundation and springboard to almost all art.

Sometimes the essence of a subject can be captured in a portrait; sometimes it can be captured in art showing people engaged in an activity where they forget themselves and become one with the event.  

In a landscape or still life, this essential nature might reveal itself in the lighting or the effect a place or thing has on other senses. Abstract art can be a reduction of a subject to its core essence or an elaboration of that energy into something more complex.  

Often the moment when a subject's essential energy reveals itself is so fleeting that it's gone within seconds. Sometimes, if one is lucky, it lasts longer. It flickers and flows, hides itself and appears again.  It is, however,

a constant thread and forever engaging.