Hampton's Artist | Kryn Olson | Painter | Easthampton | Sag Harbor

Hampton Artist

Sag Harbor - East Hampton - Painter

Raised in Michigan, Land of 10,000 Lakes, surrounded by rolling farm fields and beautiful woods, I began exploring nature at a very early age. Learning to observe gave me the insight and knowledge of how things interact and work together.

I still witness and observe life, internalizing it through all of my senses. I use my head and my gut, so that when I go to put an experience onto the canvas it is rearranged, recombined. My current body of work stems from the intimate relationship that I have with nature and everyday life. A duality that seems so logical and natural it is rare to identify the two separately.

Like our history, my paintings are created layer upon layer, paint, concept, then another layer of paint, until the history of the conceptual issue is worked though and the final image is defined. I record moments, the beauty of a time witnessed. They are always as I experienced them-in color, filled with line and form.

Sag Harbor

Creative Influences

Sag Harbor - East Hampton - Paris - Santa Fe - Africa

Africa

I will be sharing my Africa experience and photographs with you shortly. I will post its soon as possible..

Paris

Centuries of planning, designing and building have created the streets of Paris. Read More

Santa fe

Connecting the Earth and Sky. Santa Fe is a magical place that vividly shares the history of Earth’s creation. Read More

Eric Ernst

Inside Nature’s Dissonant Symphony Eric Ernst

While nature can often be viewed superficially as a flawless manifestation of balance and equilibrium, Kryn Olson searches beneath the surface of what can be seen and instead conjures the invisible images of the maelstrom beneath. Constructing a compositional framework from our environment’s dissonantly symphonic mix of cycles, patterns and rhythms, she strives to avoid simply mirroring a pictorial tableau, instead reflecting Bridget Riley’s observation that “nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.”

This is particularly apparent in her recent works in which the images take on decidedly more biologically animated configurations than in the past. Juxtaposing a powerful use of color superimposed with wildly expressive linear and calligraphic elements, the artist succinctly underscores the complexity of nature itself in the emphasis on what almost appear as architectonic and machine-like structures within the images themselves.

Using a powerful balance of structure and spontaneity, the works are particularly successful in creating images that seem to originate from both the natural world as well as perhaps from an imaginary one. Echoing George Braque’s sensibility that “to work from nature is to improvise”, Ms. Olson’s new works are most impactful in reminding us that, in reflecting the natural world in art, the greatest impact always arises from something that nature doesn’t itself posses; the intuitive insight of the artist’s hand.