Hope Floats in Big Orange Sky

Sun's a Comin

Birds of a Feather

New Oasis

Passages

Red Oasis

Double Dip

Red Column

Just Before

Spring Fling

Catch Me If You Can

River Story 2

River Story 3

Artist's Statement

Painting is my meditation. The most compelling, even haunting, force propelling my images has been an unquenchable thirst for recording and expressing transformation. I try to synthesize different influences in my life into a rich and complex imagery that tells of the connection between the outer experience of daily life and the inner world of a developing spiritual heart.

My paintings have usually employed recognizable images, although they are not "realistic", and are represented in ambiguous spaces; watery and atmospheric. In much of my work, my experimentation with images has evolved with an understanding that there is a kind of internal logic linking certain forms with each other, a logic that, perhaps, belongs to the world of archetypes, and definitely forms its own iconography of symbols.

My newest work, however, leans toward a primary concern for color. I record images with a very sensuous and textured palette and I am continually fascinated by images of water. All manner of objects float upon its surface, life appears in its reflections, exists in its depths, and its form is perpetually transformed by movement and changes in environmental light.

My work reflects constant motion and change - very dramatically. For me, life is an unceasing journey of transformation, and a special luminescence or light (others call it truth, love, god, universal mind) dictates, informs, and organizes the structural unity of my work.

The paradoxes in my paintings, the blurring of boundaries between exterior and interior, between the physical and the psychical - this is what sustains my interest and what, for me, continuously opens up future possibilites.

~ Mira M. White

For more information and to see more of Mira M. White's work, please visit her site:

Mira M. White's site: www.miraMwhite.com

Email: mira@miraMwhite.com

Phone: 925 947-5773

Biography

Mira M. White is an award-winning painter with an exhibition record both domestic and international, and has been an art instructor for over 30 years. She organizes and conducts numerous workshops in Pastels, Watercolor, and Mixed Media, including several ongoing painting workshops in France. She received the Grand Prize at the prestigious Rocky Mountain National Aquamedia Exhibition in 2001, was presented in Watercolor Magic-winter 2002, and was a Third-place winner in the national Pastel Journal competition of 2006.

Her love affair with painting has always been directed by a love of light. This preoccupation with luminosity has served as a connecting thread between all of her works, be them still life, landscape, figure, or her personal myth imagery paintings. Her working methods vary according to medium and subject, but, generally, she has a multi-layered approach.

Process and play with materials is extremely important to this artist. Work may begin from simply pushing paint around, from a sketch, photo, or from visual memory, but the work evolves and changes until a tight visual structure exists that delights her eye as in a visual dance. She tries to convey mood through a rich, vibrant color system and wants the viewer to enter into the paintings and enjoy the dance.

Mira lives, works, and teaches in Walnut Creek, CA.