The ARTWORK of Marguerite Bierman
MY ARTISTIC VISION
Throughout my life, I have been drawn to color as revealed by light. I especially become excited and anticipatory of the furtive titillating display of rainbows, aureoles, and tangential arcs. I experience a type of serenity matched at times by the expansive grandeur of a natural panorama viewed from a mountain top, or from the edge of a high cliff. I love to come face to face with special optical experiences that demand greater visual acuity, realizing that the impact can be dissected and analyzed, but can really be more satisfying to my total being if I just allow it to be a gestalt experience. I have collected objects that have become precious to me as they bring to my remembrance these special observations and experiences. Colored glass in its many forms brings delight as light travels through it or bounces off it giving varying visual experiences. Precious gemstones that concentrate a myriad of colors that seem to move have a special attraction that energizes that feeling of excitement and delight. The juxtaposition of colors revealed in a slab of marble became a touchstone to another world of joy. As I developed and matured, I became aware that my sensibilities paralleled the artists of the past who too were moved by colors and their equivalent feelings, to create something that moved me through their art even though they had long been silent in the earth. I became fascinated with all aspects of art: its creation, culture, craft, and history. As a child of a career military family, I remember early images of our years in Italy, so impressed by the beauty captured in their daily life.
Everywhere there were objects, surfaces, and structures that deeply affected me. Later as a young artist beginning to learn to imitate marble through painting, I realized several thousand years before unnamed artists had created faux marble in their fresco wainscotings in Pompeii. It was a great revelation to me at the time that I was part of great tradition of craft and sensibility and piqued my curiosity to learn more. In addition I came to realize that architects and itinerant builders, through their placement of spatial volumes and sculptural detailing, orchestrated and enhanced my feelings. This became especially apparent in gothic churches where my being was drawn from the floor to the ceiling as my eyes followed the towering pillars to realize a larger-than-life awareness. Classical buildings reaffirmed a sense of balance, grandeur, and harmony that I enjoyed being enveloped. My creative journey has had varied expressions: paint, metals, glass, wood, plaster, architectural interiors. Generally the application has been as been in an architectural setting either as a designer or general contractor, or as an artisan or artist of a specific artwork. Since 1995 I have collaborated with Dr. Norman Wengert on my public commissions and personal creativity utilizing a teachable methodology he discovered and developed to choose all aspects of the creative process from the selection of precise colors site-specific to their application, the equivalent of feelings, to the process and sequence of their application to achieve the most impact upon individuals engaged in the environment transformed or in the artwork created. This methodology Dr. Wengert has termed Enchanted Sight©.
When I use Enchanted Sight©, I feel I’ve been stretched to reach for the best possible color, design, technique, and meaning that I am capable of producing. As I learn to become more aware and increase in skill, the array of possibilities multiplies as the methodology of Enchanted Sight© attunes and focuses my listening to the great source of all creativity, enabled to birth creative expressions in an unexpected yet disciplined way. My portfolio flows out of this continuum of dialogue between my evolving self inspired by nature and my daily experiences, monitored by a methodology that enables me to grow in discernment and purposed creativity.
To review the descriptions written by Dr. Wengert underpinning the concept and the meaning of the colors and designs utilized collaboratively, go to www.enchantedsight/artists.com.
Everywhere there were objects, surfaces, and structures that deeply affected me. Later as a young artist beginning to learn to imitate marble through painting, I realized several thousand years before unnamed artists had created faux marble in their fresco wainscotings in Pompeii. It was a great revelation to me at the time that I was part of great tradition of craft and sensibility and piqued my curiosity to learn more. In addition I came to realize that architects and itinerant builders, through their placement of spatial volumes and sculptural detailing, orchestrated and enhanced my feelings. This became especially apparent in gothic churches where my being was drawn from the floor to the ceiling as my eyes followed the towering pillars to realize a larger-than-life awareness. Classical buildings reaffirmed a sense of balance, grandeur, and harmony that I enjoyed being enveloped. My creative journey has had varied expressions: paint, metals, glass, wood, plaster, architectural interiors. Generally the application has been as been in an architectural setting either as a designer or general contractor, or as an artisan or artist of a specific artwork. Since 1995 I have collaborated with Dr. Norman Wengert on my public commissions and personal creativity utilizing a teachable methodology he discovered and developed to choose all aspects of the creative process from the selection of precise colors site-specific to their application, the equivalent of feelings, to the process and sequence of their application to achieve the most impact upon individuals engaged in the environment transformed or in the artwork created. This methodology Dr. Wengert has termed Enchanted Sight©.
When I use Enchanted Sight©, I feel I’ve been stretched to reach for the best possible color, design, technique, and meaning that I am capable of producing. As I learn to become more aware and increase in skill, the array of possibilities multiplies as the methodology of Enchanted Sight© attunes and focuses my listening to the great source of all creativity, enabled to birth creative expressions in an unexpected yet disciplined way. My portfolio flows out of this continuum of dialogue between my evolving self inspired by nature and my daily experiences, monitored by a methodology that enables me to grow in discernment and purposed creativity.
To review the descriptions written by Dr. Wengert underpinning the concept and the meaning of the colors and designs utilized collaboratively, go to www.enchantedsight/artists.com.
