Sandra Neumann Wilderman

Painter

Paul Jenkins, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alyce Van Acker and watercolorist, Jean Grastorf are among the Artists who have influenced my work. My approach to painting is to pour layers of acrylics or watercolors onto wet paper or canvas creating biomorphic shapes and linear sharpness. My earliest poured paintings were bold and abstract followed by the atmospheric illusion series. After 9/11, I began experimenting with various techniques, formats and compositions, which developed into the symbolic paintings. More recently, I started weaving two paintings together to create a systematic, geometric and textural composition. And currently, I am combining the process of pouring and painting directly on canvas and paper.

After painting directly with watercolors for almost twenty years I find the spontaneity, the fluidity and the stylistic eclecticism of pouring acrylics and watercolors to be a freeing and spiritual experience. And it is through this process that I have found my voice.