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Artist Statement:
 

Ilene Rubin

Bucks County Artist and Author

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I’m an artist who feels very strongly about the emotional

and instinctive force which drives the creative process.

I want to feel that a location or object absolutely has to

be explored. That exploration with paint creates a reality

of that place or still life and in doing so, makes it real.

That sense that I must document it is urgent and required

or I will not rest until I’ve said every bit of what I need

to convey about it. It’s organic and ever-evolving, but

unless my painting can reveal the artist in the art and

at the same time be an inner mirror for a viewer, it’s

merely a rendering of color and form – but not stirring.

I strive to reveal what’s below the paint, what a viewer

may remark is an invitation to walk in and look around.

Then I know I’ve captured a moment in time or given

an object the opportunity to seem physically real.

It may not be what is seen outside your window or

on your table in perfect clarity, and maybe it’s really

only felt or sensed, but if it made a viewer consider

its innate beauty just for one minute, then I feel happy

to have conveyed something they did not realize

of myself until seeing my paintings.

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Ilene Rubin
215.230.4111

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