Paintings from Bali
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.Padang Bai 01
Padang Bai 02
Padang Bai 03
Lillies 01
Lilies 02 Lilies 03 Tirtagangga Lilies 02  
Tirtagangga Lilies 01
Balinese Girl 01
Balinese Girl 02
Balinese Girls 01
 Balinese Girls 02
Balinese Girls 03
Balinese Girls 04
Balinese Girls 05
Fish 02
Fish 01
Seaweed Farm 01
Seaweed Farm 02
Seaweed Farm 03
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artist's statement

Artist Statement

A successful investigation of a subject yields its portrait. I reach into all my subjects, whether they are people, animals or natural phenomena, and I try to capture their essential quality. I paint their personality. Waving grass on a hillside or the translucent hues of human skin offer illustrations of life and emotion.

 Danielle Eubank Danielle Eubank 2003 photo: Tom Crew
The subjects of my paintings are simple natural phenomena that fill me with joy and persuade me to represent them. Creating a memorable image is important. I seek to make visual representations that grow with the viewer; that continue to be interesting over a long period of time. I see each subject as an entity and attempt to capture a fleeting moment in the life of that object.  Danielle Eubank Danielle Eubank 2003 photo: Colin Moore
Bristol Waters 05 Bristol Waters 05. Composition matters. I value the composition of a painting; I use structure to create movement and expose the meaning of the image. I always consider the composition before I begin sketching. Then, I build up colors, creating composite hues and letting in light, through layering, scumbling, and scraping to reveal what I see as the personality of that object.
Reaction is very important to me, because I see our relationship to our environment as an interactive one: two life-sources responding to each other. I believe that there are a number of inter-connections that occur throughout the life-cycle of a painting. Not simply a passive appreciation of the object by the painter and of the image by the viewer, but a responsive experience first by the artist with her subject and later by the viewer with the image. In fact, I am fascinated by that latter stage, by how my images are interpreted by different people. For me, painting is a way of expressing my innermost consciousness and viewers' reactions confirm that act of communication.
By travelling, I find that my excitement about the beauty of the natural environment is constantly enriched by experiencing its stunning variations. In my work, I translate the inherent beauty of those physical worlds into paintings that can communicate its essential qualities to a larger audience.

I like to provoke the viewer into a heightened awareness of their experience in front of the canvas. My recent work, for example, highlights questions of proximity through large portraits that bring the subject right up to the surface of the canvas, almost into the viewer's space. By layering the paint with broad brushstrokes, I invite the audience to appreciate the physical, painterly qualities from close quarters and the personality of the subject at a distance.

Proximity and personality continue to be important elements in my work. Among my most recent paintings, one special project is an exploration of the behaviours of water. I am painting a series of images that describe different bodies of water--streams, channels, ponds, rivers, seas-and their varying qualities. Technically, I am exploring methods of applying paint in order to produce light effects like glisten and glimmer. From close up the images seem abstract and from far away they appear as reflections on water. In these waterscapes I aim to capture the element's most challenging characteristic: its constant changing.