Joan B. Tumpson Artist's Statement |
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when another burst upon us. In Vietnam, the scars of war are hidden and a green world grows over old wounds. I wanted to make this green mine: to paint the renewal and growth of wild things and fields under cultivation, yet to render them in the unyielding moment when we realize we will lose them again and again in time. On the edge of temporal loss, all beauty seems more radiant. It is a place of change, where things I am a small-town girl from West Virginia. But after I got my BA at Northwestern University, Yale Law School invited me to join the Class of '73. I believed my options were widening -- big-firm salaries were seductive and I became a lawyer instead of an artist, but never stopped trying to make art. By 1991, I had begun to study and make art with the intensity of obsession. I left my legal practice, and rented a studio. This was not a courageous decision, but something I had to do -- I could not do otherwise. |
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Copyright © Joan Tumpson, 2004. All rights reserved. |
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