Dawn South
Alabaster, Alabama
Contrary Contemporary artist from Alabaster, AL. Textures are my theme. Most of my paintings are full of rich textures and layers of paint.
MessageDawn South is from Hoover, Alabama and graduated from the University of Montevallo with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. She has been painting for over 20 years but just recently chose to make this her sole profession. Her paintings range from very detailed representational art to very expressive abstract. Dawn calls her art style Contrary Contemporary, a Yin and Yang way of painting where she uses a combination of textures and looseness in the brush strokes and in contrast with smooth details working together in harmony.
"I love the mixture of the non perfect application that comes with my fingers, palette knives, combs and various materials combined with precise attention to the small details with the tiniest paintbrush," Dawn says. "Just like the landscapes around us, there must be some chaos and disorder to help us see what is pleasant and beautiful right in front of us."
Statement
I paint stories. Your stories and mine and my aim is to bring those stories to life on the canvas.
The act of painting itself is a beautiful way to work through feelings. My studio is my happy place where I can just be real and unapologetic. I play, I mess up, I start over and am always looking for something new to learn. Painting for me has become not just an act of creation but also to living, to healing and freeing where I can release my emotions and convert them into something powerful. This is most evident in my abstract pieces which reveal the most raw places in me.
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