Passion and Art

Passion and Art

by Louise Osborn

Passion is love with energy, with action, practical love, active love, love that changes the world. Passion is mobile, motivated, not just focussed or possessed, but fully participatory with the object of that passion. Annette’s work is nothing if not vibrant, engaged, a true expression of her energies.

The studio is a sublime space as a result of passion. The merest line, painted or drawn here, is effected by a pressure, an angle and a pace informed by an active love of the process. We know, if we are not strangers to the language of visual marks (or spiritually blinded), what we are looking at. We read in the line the condition of the artist at the time of its creation. It can’t be faked, unless the viewer cannot read the art.

Where does this passion come from? Who knows? From talent? Aptitude? Or just from being alive, from having lies cleared from the eyes?

Her special gift, who she is, what her place in society, or rather culture is, where she fits, who she is born to be, these are truths not to be denied on pain of darkness, the darkening of her light and her life. Where success is present in painting (and color is light) it must indicate that the painter succeeded in staying in the light of herself, of living fully. This is what we admire, as we may do so ourselves in our own ways, or deny for fear of influence or comparison.