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By Suzanne Zylonis
Special to the Rappahannock News
The watercolors of Carol Lumier Baliles on exhibition in Long View Gallery reflect the life and journeys — both physical and spiritual — of an artist who is continually exploring and changing. It is a rewarding demonstration of how art speaks to the viewer on many levels.
Balilies’ work, rhythmically composed landscapes with intense color and emotionally charged brushwork, has its historical antecedent in the work of the Fauves. This tum-of-thecentury French movement (fauve means wild ones) was fascinated with vivid colors and patterns of shapes.
The French Impressionist painter, Gauguin may be another influence with his advice, “When you see red, chose the reddest red on your palette. When you see green, the greenest green.”
Baliles spiritual exploration of Eastern philosophy, Native American beliefs and Christianity led her to Tibet, India and the American Southwest. Her work incorporates landscapes from these journeys suffused with a sense of wonder and spirit. White light shines through vivid colors expressing spiritual energy and power.
Red Chairs/Lotus Bliss, a large garden scene in late afternoon, is alive with swirls of vivid color, repetitions of shapes, and floral imagery. A sense of warm evening light is
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