Soul Portrait: Firefly - Sylvia Montesinos

acrylic and ink on canvas mounted on panel
12"x9"x3/4" unframed, 13"x10"x2" framed
 
Montesinos’ current body of work is informed by past and recent memories as well as by the natural residential surroundings where she lives in North Central Florida. She responds both intuitively and visually to the composition as it unfolds before her thus exploring impermanence and the mutability of the moment. Analogous with the idea of “going with the flow”, she allows water to make its way across the canvas creating organic forms, as it plays with the medium. After a health crisis in 2015, unpredictable, amorphous, permanent ink blots have become metaphors of her life. Painting has become a way for her to grapple with uncertainty. Like a splatter of black ink on a white sheet of paper, mediums such as watercolor, acrylic and ink reflect her reality and ephemeral sense of control.