Meredith Pardue

My paintings are visual records of nature’s cycles of growth and decay. I combine the random actions of painting with controlled, deliberate mark making to describe each form, which is often floral or plantlike in structure.

I could say that I intimate a certain relationship between physical and psychological space in my work, because in a sense that is true. But my approach to making a painting is much more comfortable, intuitive, and personal than that. And so, the result of this visual investigation—the painting—reflects that process. I am most interested in extracting singular experiences from nature’s endless cycles, and in transforming the public world of nature into a place of private knowledge.

Fragments #2, 48" x 48" Bloom VIII, 36" x 36" Bloom VII, 36" x 36" Bloom II, 48" x 48" Bloom IV, 60" x 48" Spell on the Bayou, 48" x 48" Botanical #5, 48" x 48" Figment 2, 48" x 48" Figment 3, 48" x 48" Figment 5 Figment 4 Strange Ground, 48" x 48" Fossil Portrait, 48" x 48" Totem XXI - SOLD Totem XX - SOLD