Sacred Geometry. Exploring Color, Form, and Inner Harmony

The Pandemic changed the world for everyone. In my studio in isolation, I shifted from commissioned portraits (no longer possible) to a visual journal of all that was going on in the world around me. I called this a “Covid Mandala: Meditations on an Emergency.” When I finished the Covid Mandala, I turned to abstract painting.

Geometry was the vehicle I used to begin an investigation, through reading and through painting, of the natural significance of geometric forms. I learned that every culture and every religion used geometric ratios and shapes in much the same way for much the same reasons: to confirm the relationship between man and nature. 

I begin a series of abstract paintings structured around circles and squares - a major change from the portraits I have painted for decades. I decided to call this new work “Sacred Geometry” after an essay by Carl Jung called ‘Sacred Geometry.”

I have explored shaped canvas: Circles, Squares, Rectangles and now Triangles – all different sizes and on different supports. The basic shape, the circle in a square, attracted me. I grided a 4’x7’ canvas with 12” squares that were circumscribed with circles and then began to apply dots and dashes in colors reminiscent of Joan Mitchell’s paintings from the ‘50’s and ‘60’s but also in the backgrounds of some of my own portrait paintings. Echoes of the Washington Color School from the 1970’s also cropped up but the evolving paintings are uniquely mine. They unleash the power and joy of color within the restrictions of imposed geometric structures.