BIO:
Peggy Morse is a painter investigating the fluid restlessness of abstraction. Free association is a touchstone as her images are compounded in her imagination. Morse pushes the painterliness of her surfaces, effecting a complex synthesis between color and line, gesture and movement.

Morse has studied with established contemporary artists, including Robert Szot, of Los Angeles; Meredith Rosier and Jenny Nelson, of the Woodstock School of Art, New York; and Nicholas Wilton, of the Art2Life Academy. Morse resides and paints in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. She exhibits nationally. Her most recent work can be seen on her Instagram account: @peggymorse.art

Artist Statement:
Painting is my means of inquiry, invention and lush discovery. The construction of each piece occurs directly on a canvas with no preconception. It may be an urgent or a tentative start of hand and tool to surface, then a wisp of line or flood of color. I savor the inconsistent journeys painting has to offer.

Abstract painting convinces me I can connect and identify with this historically mythic language. Each painting records an evolution of evidence as my intuition navigates the cycle, moving back and forth between who I am and how the painting will articulate my presence. I feel close to my intentions when I am able to translate what is within me into paint.