Rock Stack II Acrylic Print

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While I still love large, expressive painting, I’m increasingly drawn to creating realist work. I like getting lost in the details. I find that it quiets my brain and calms me. There’s something contemplative and meditative about creating realist images. My grandmother used to tell me stories about "magic" rocks that had a vein of a different type of rock that wrapped all the way around them. When she passed away, I found these rocks on the beach near her home in Hyannis Port, MA.

�Color and texture are hugely important in my work. Applied appropriately, they can actually elicit a visceral response from the viewer,� says Emily Page, a California-born, Virginia-raised artist. Page began experimenting with different brushwork and palette knife work, scraping and overlaying, from the very beginning. At Wake Forest University in North Carolina, she honed her skills and graduated with honors with a BA in visual arts. �I learned to work in a number of mediums, including sculpture and photography, but my passion has always been painting. I love working with oil paint simply for the richness of it. It just feels luxurious. And it affords such workability and durability. No other medium matches it. I enjoy branching...