Richard Pawlak - Abstract expressionist | Boston - Cape Cod
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It’s been a couple years since Roberta’s last December 2020 Artimusi interview when we posted a few of her paintings and a music video. She’s since created more paintings in yet a different style from her studio/gallery located in Monson, Maine.
Artimusi. Comparing earlier objective-expressionist works with new nonobjective-abstraction, have you continued painting in the “Fiddleheads” style or have you moved onto something else? What’s the history there? Roberta. I did a brief series on the “Clams Around the Campfire” theme. Then onto another series, “Complicated Woods” in 2019, followed by Fiddleheads, something quite different in a mostly abstract style. My most recent abstract-expressionist series last year, 2021, is the Cabin in the Woods.
Artimusi. What is the meaning of the clams (mollusks) in some of your earlier paintings? Roberta. I had fantasized about moving from Gloucester, a fishing town in Massachusetts, to sitting around the campfire in inland Maine. The clam colors were brought over from some earlier paintings I’d done through 2014. Over time, the concept became less meaningful, though the clams had peculiar, humanoid shapes I enjoyed working with that would later influence my venture into non-objective abstraction.
Richard Pawlak - Abstract expressionist | Boston - Cape Cod