Artists I Like: Georgina Vinsun

Oceanic, cosmic, nebulous. Just a few words I’d use to describe the abstract colorscapes of Georgina Vinsun. Her use of color is indulgent to say the least. Beyond simply vibrant though, there’s a sublime majesty in the tumultuous depths of color. Her Sun Spots collection, for instance evokes the dark beauty of the starry abyss.

Distant Stars interestingly, with its blues and greens, feels almost aquatic by contrast. Its brush strokes scurry and flow like schools of fish or undulant seaweed.  That’s part of the beauty of her work. Sweeping, churning, flowing bodies of color and cosmic force are suggestive of subject and landscape without betraying their beguiling ambiguity. Color reverberates from the primal depths of the universe, crashing like waves upon an abstract expanse.

I love the way she explores rich, vibrant color and pairings. Using them as both subject and theme she creates a blurry fusion of image and ambience. I’m always attracted to artists preoccupied with the nature and personality of color itself. With its sweeping pseudo naturalism and celestial majesty, Vinsun’s work represents some of the most compelling uses of color I’ve seen. It reminds me of one of my favorite Robert Frost’s lines. And like his Snowy Woods, Vinsuns landscapes are also “…lovely, dark, and deep…”