MERCEDES CECILIA

I have been painting since a child and I carrying my box with paints.

It was October of 1980 when I began painting the The Waters of the Catskill Mountains. That Autumn was the first time in my adult life that I felt the sense of being at home, a deep feeling of interconnectedness with my environment, the community and wonderful light of these area. Camping in the Catskill’s State Parks during every season for 6 years, reasurme this is the place I wish to live.

In June of 1986, I made these mountains my home. I live in Woodstock, NY. This is the place I love every day, in every season. Following in the footsteps of the Hudson River artists, I also celebrate our River and the Catskill Mountains, wishing and working  to preserve the aliveness of Planet Earth and our imitate communities.

I feel joy when the light plays on the surface of the waters when trees, mountains, and sky weaves their forms with a lake, river, or stream. Drawn by the movements of light creating forms and revealing a tapestry of colors, my complete being follows the movements of light on the water. I love hearing the trees whispering to the wind, and watch their forms becoming one with the waters and the light.

I paint as mapping the spaces of light.  By painting in front of the same lakes and streams every month, year after year, I observe and feel deeply the changes taking place in our environment and the effects of these changes on our communities, our forests, wild life and our vegetable gardens.

Every time I finish a painting or walk so close to these streams I thank Mr. Lou Sloan, who for 30 years brought his art students to the Catskill in October and the 3rd week of March for landscape painting.

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