This body of work is designed to push my creative abilities in a new direction, exhibiting both dominant artistic spirits within me. . . Music and Art! The motivation was born with my goal to obtain a Music and Fine Arts degree. Melding the two disciplines together challenges my abilities to express visual and sound senses as one. For inspiration, I began research on the Musicians: Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Artists: Klee, Matisse, Kandinsky, and Macke, who explored the relationships between the two arts. Kandinsky said, "Color is the key, the eye is the hammer, the soul is the piano with its many strings."

Each painting is accompanied with a synopsis of thoughts that guide me as I conduct various collections of music on canvas. The songs indicated are the actual songs I listen to while painting, but the visual results are not solely composed from the music. Conceptions evolve through intellectual thought on how, where, and why the people performed and composed the music. Inclusion of imagery occasionally seems appropriate because of the psychological analogies people occasionally have towards certain colors and shapes. For example, the palms in Reggae Beat, the horn shapes in Celebration Sounds, and the rolling hills in Wild Horses.

I find abstract expressionistic painting challenging on a technical as well as an intellectual level. Technically, I have learned new and exciting ways to apply the paint freely yet deliberately. Piano is my instrument of choice, so stroking the paint across the canvas with my hands and fingers is a familiar form of creative expression for me. Composing with color mimics playing chord progressions on the piano, each hue/note working together in harmony. I formed contour lines in sync with rhythms and chose color spaces of the sounds I heard and felt. As the music stimulated my emotions and motivated my imagination, I allowed myself to act instinctively and spontaneously which resulted in magical moments of synchronicity. My results are vividly colored works of art that were created through my musical experiences.

I know there are an unlimited amount of scores to be painted and paintings to be heard . . . I have aspirations to add to my anthology and continue the quest.

~ Karin Patrice Husty