Blue Ridge Sonnet #40, 2019, graphite, 36 x 30 in. / 91.44 x 76.2 cm. painting Under the Big Sky

Under the Big Sky

Studying decay with color in hot sculpted glass

Switzerland as a part of the series Suffering Vehicles

Madonna of the Lost

monotype on chine-collé kitakata

Blue Ridge Sonnet #40, 2019, graphite, 36 x 30 in. / 91.44 x 76.2 cm. painting Under the Big SkyBlue Ridge Sonnet #40, AnaMarie Liddell, 2019, graphite, 36 x 30 in. 91. 44 x 76. 2 cm. Within the Blue Ridge Mountains a hillside of boulders and trees greets the morning sun as a flock of birds awakens and flies off. Eliminating all references to color the drawings become, in essence, an abstraction of reality and a more vivid interpretation of the scene in a simple and direct way.