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View of Perfect Hill with Winter Stems
View of Perfect Hill with Winter Stems
View from Perfect Hill with Larkspur and Wild Oats
View from Perfect Hill with Larkspur and Wild Oats
Golden Chain Pods, Plum Blossoms, and Trilliums
Golden Chain Pods, Plum Blossoms, and Trilliums
Magnolia Buds, Dried Pea Pods, and Native Blackberry
Magnolia Buds, Dried Pea Pods, and Native Blackberry
Sweet William, Tomatoes, Evening Primrose
Sweet William, Tomatoes, Evening Primrose
Forsythia, Calla Leaves, and Spring Beauties
Forsythia, Calla Leaves, and Spring Beauties
 
  Stephan Soihl
  Transparent colored forms suspended in space have always held the greatest visual excitement for me. I began to do sculpture with transparent materials. I evolved a method of pouring many different layers of colored resin to form bands of color, always to reveal their spatial qualities.

Even with my sculpture I still feel drawn to the natural forms of the earth. I felt personal response to the complex, embellished worlds of vegetation. It is dense, vigorous, multi-layered, wonderfully colored. It is made up of living forms, gritty and aggressive, ort forms decaying and returning to the earth.

In my watercolors drawing and painting exist side by side; the marks and lines of the pencil mean as much as the applications of color by the brush. I do not cover all the white of the paper. In fact, the white of the paper functions, in a sculptural sense, as empty, three-dimensional space to be filled or partially filled by linear marks corresponding to the branches and vines. In nature leaves, branches, and vines fill, enhance, or define space.