Adversity births innovation. In lieu of a brick and mortar gallery show, galleries are shut down or very much slowed down, I’m launching a virtual gallery show of my newest work. I hope you enjoy. If you do, please tell your friends. Spread the word. A virtual show doesn’t get traffic off the street, but with your help people unfamiliar with my work can discover it just the same.
These pieces bring together three of my favorite things. Landscape, asemic writing, and mixed media. I find much inspiration in the landscape of Vermont where I live. I find the horizon line an always changing beauty. Asemic writing (a developing genre) I think of as a form of writing that is understood intuitively. Mixed media, the use of a variety of media in a piece, allows me to bring texture, line and mark, to pieces, literally stitch together the elements.
New Light Rising; Let it be
mixed media, 4" x 6" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
Bird Lyric Sky
mixed media, 5" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020 (red dot)
So peaceful and inspiring - S. Williamson
Glimpse Beyond this Wall of Words
mixed media, 5" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
Sun smudge, prayer for the land
mixed media, 5.5" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020 (red dot)
So grounding. So Lovely. - P. Raine
Deep In the rock, the MOUNTAIN sings its hymn
mixed media, 5" x 6" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
Long View
mixed media, 4" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
promise of the brilliant
mixed media, 6" x 9" mounted on 9" x 12" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $365
Dusty evening, rose song across the lake
mixed media, 4.5" x 7.5" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
How very beautifully restrained and elegant - M. Coady
lull of the river hymn
mixed media, 3" x 7.5" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
Rose evening, song of the river
mixed media, 5" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020 (red dot)
Red Thread of REFECTION
mixed media, 4.5" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
early morning lake song
mixed media, 4" x 6" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
Beautiful work. - J. Abdellatif
What is written in the rock below
mixed media, 5" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
The wash in prayer for rain
mixed media, 7.5" x 10.5" mounted on 9" x 12" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $365
These are amazing. - C. Talmage.
Low hum of white light
mixed media, 6.5" x 9.5" mounted on 9" x 15" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $365
Bright echo cascade
mixed media, 6.5" x 9.5" mounted on 9" x 15" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $365
Song rising on the mountain's thermals
mixed media, 5.5" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
Notes on the turning season
mixed media, 5.5" x 7" mounted on 6" x 9" 140lb watercolor paper, 2020, $345
Thank you for spending a little time with my work.
When purchased each piece will be carefully packaged and posted ready to frame. If you have questions or comments please send them to vanvliet@vanvlietarts.com.
Warmly and with appreciation, Karla Van Vliet
Artist Bio: Karla Van Vliet’s paintings have been featured in Still Point Art Quarterly, Stone Voices Magazine, Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, and Gate Posts with No Gate: The Leg Paint Project. Her books, From the Book of Remembrance (Shanti Arts, 2015) and The River From My Mouth (Shanti Arts, 2016,) are collections of poems and paintings. Her poem length chapbook is, Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit (Folded Word, 2018.) Her newest book, Fluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings, is forthcoming from Shanti Arts. She is an Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize finalist, and a two-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her poems have appeared in Acumen, Poet Lore, The Tishman Review, Green Mountains Review, Crannog Magazine and others. Karla is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal. She is an Integrative Dreamwork analyst, artist and administrator of the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf, Middlebury College. Karla lives in Vermont, USA. www.vanvlietarts.com