Red, Yellow Blue

Portia Hein
Starry Night, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 36"

Portia Hein
Pastel forrest (PH10_15), 2010
Oil on canvas
36 x 48"

Portia Hein's newest paintings and drawings continue her translation of the natural world into a personally resonant language of marks, color and texture. Images of birds, trees and celestial bodies find themselves coalescing or breaking apart amidst rays of light, night skies and turpentine washes...Working largely from memory, Hein draws on the emotional as well as the physical attributes of place. Like memory, the surfaces of her paintings are varied. Some parts are thick, vibrant and richly textured, while others, like gaps in memory, are thinly painted and vaguely suggested rather than wholly depicted.

Excerpt from the Traywick Contemporary Press Release October 3 - December 18, 2010 .