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Artwork by Flo Ryan

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Flo Ryan

Flo Ryan CURRENT WORK.
My more recent work in part is a journey through Color Field stripes. As far back as 1950s stripes have been a recognized and powerful element of choice by abstract expressionist artists such as Barnett Newman, Bridget Riley, Jack Bush, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland.

By way of digression, my stripe series build on the works of earlier Color Field painters by introducing a minimalist subject. The subject, usually a reference to nature, not only lightens up the intellectual weight for contemporary viewer, it also introduces movement and depth to the composition. To avoid a mere pretty imitation of Color Field predecessors, I introduce holistic elements to bring out meditative emotions from contemporary digital viewer.

Directly linked to color field approach I have taken great interest to devise my Pop Art 2.0 style as a source of inspiration. Here again, I divert from the pioneers by glowing color to draw depth. Color contrasts give illusionary depth of field. The introduction text to my Galleries link give short insight into my approach to what I would refer to as color field photography.

WHY DO I CREATE ARTWORKS?
Before getting into my work and biography, here I share my reasons why:

Aesthetics. This in a way expresses my perception of beauty, colors, shapes, their arrangements, reaching for subtle rhythms of emotions. It’s the innate pleasure to select one color or another. It is an urge to share an experience, a story that must be shared.

Egoism. It’s an urge to seem intelligent, acknowledged and talked about, now and after death. Egoism is not necessarily craving for fame. It would be insincere to claim egoism is not a motive for creating artworks, and perhaps a potent one. I share this desire with great deal of artists, businessmen and amongst top crusts of humanity.

Philosophy. It’s the desire to guide the world by certain ideals that I have collected throughout my life. It’s about ideals on what I am and what I believe in. These principles could be scientific in nature such as geometry, mathematics, group theory, logic, color theory etc. Other ideals are less scientific, sometimes ruled on within a blink, touching emotions, intuition, psychology, symbolism, culture and all the way to history.

HINTS TO APPRECIATE MY WORK.
I believe growing sophistication of human mind facilitates a transition to wonders of the abstract. I therefore prefer to operate in the inexhaustible realm of abstract art, with special curiosity for the intricate language of colors.

My personal advice to capture the most of my color field works is to start by clearing the mind of any thinking distractions, because active thinking simply blunts finer sensibilities. Stay in now and try to visually focus in, and then mentally ‘zone out’ by defocusing your vision of to gradually become glowingly mesmerized. Allow the eyes to undertake the observations for the brain, not the other way around. This facilitates your mind to blend the colors fields surrounding a faint subject. I hazard a guess that the submission of mind to emotions helps you transcends into a meditative realm of personal sensuality and human emotions, from ecstasy, to sorrow and even blandness. As any meditation, try not to give in to mind’s attempt to make sense of the compositions, instead remain mindful and allow beams of color to caress and awaken your feelings. Embark and enjoy the ride on those emotions like floating on shoreless seas.

SHORT BIO.
It would not be an overstatement to describe my earlier years as that of a scrupulous adventurer. In 1980s I left Vienna, Austria to obtain a high school diploma at the Navajo Indian reservation in Tuba City, Arizona. Later I received Bachelor of Arts from University of Toronto and Masters of Arts from University of Amsterdam.

Other places I lived and worked include Berlin, Germany, Austin, Texas and Vancouver, Canada. I have now lived for a decade under the low hanging skies of the Netherlands, a place that inspired likes of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Mondrian, and Escher just to name a few.

In pursuing my detached ideals, I shy away from overt publicity not to create an air of sphinx-like mystery, but to continue on an uninterrupted and graciously solitude path of discovery.