The focus for my art is to evoke light, depth, and energy using juxtapositions of color and contrast. I have an emotional feeling about color that becomes a physical sensation that I can process into what I create. I seek to achieve luminosity by blending colors and situating them in ways that create these illusions of light and buoyancy. My work is intuitive and visceral – both organic and sometimes with geometric references. I find inspiration in clouds, water, plant life, and wildlife. Light informs color and I try to grasp those nuances in my work. 

Bio
Monique received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Apparel Design and an MFA in Web Design New Media from the Academy of Art University. In tandem with her design career, she continued to paint - portraits of people, animals, and homes in watercolor. Monique draws/paints in both abstract and realist styles oil, acrylics, and in mixed media and collage. She has studied under Meredith Rosiér at the Woodstock School of Art.