Lynn Manos

Artist's Statement

I am a painter/printmaker currently working in Florida. My work is representational and expressionistic. The current subject matter is water and small, colorful, wooden boats. The water is the main subject. The boats and their reflections activate the water. My search for small wooden boats often takes me to Venice, Italy and Greece. Although I am no stranger to either country, I always discover something wonderful in each country. The elegant shape of the Venetian gondolas and the colors of the small Greek dinghies both interest me as figurative elements. Formally, the challenge is to balance the interaction of color. I want the color simultaneously vibrant and harmonious.

Concurrent with the dinghies series is the Aegean Sea Series. These works explore the color and the power of the Aegean Sea off the coast of Skopelos, Greece. They strive to place the viewer in the experience of the sea—the smell, the movement, the translucency and fluidity of the water, and the feeling that one could be overpowered and swallowed up by nature.

I hope that the viewer finds the images pleasant to look at and takes away a sense of wonder at the beauty of this earth we all share.