Kay Milam is an
accomplished artist, whose passion for art is seen in her colorful
renditions of watercolors, acrylics and monoprints. Painting in her
studio, she experiments with her palette and pushes color to the limit
by utilizing bright, strong, colorful ideas, while reflecting much
feeling and emotion. She intensifies the mood and subject in her work
through the strong media, and challenges viewers look closer at colors
seen, versus what is perceived.
Kay's education consists
of college courses, background education and workshops with notables
such as Judi Betts, Jim Baker and Ron Rencher, as well as having taken
private lessons. After much encouragement from her teachers in 1980, she
began painting full time. And, after becoming a professional artist, she
has devoted much of her time teaching others what she has accomplished
through her art.
Endeavoring to bring some
special "something" to the ordinary, Kay utilizes many genuine
antiques in her still-life renditions. By taking the subject and
using her colorful palette, she transforms it into the extraordinary.
She gives an intimate view of the selected subject, bringing a sense of
the "now" to her work.
Painting at her studio,
Kay is at ease and able to heighten the emotional charge and sensory
perception of her work. : "I try to bring the extraordinary to the
ordinary color. If it is red, I like it!. Texture and pattern is what
excites me to paint and I can find inspiration in radically different
subject matter," says Kay. She also stated: "A man once
asked me, concerning and abstract painting I had done, "What is
it?" I told him "It is anything you want it to be." She
goes on to say, "My goal is to excite the viewer with the
expressive and riveting design and composition. I can find subject
matter in almost anything.
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