Angeline-Marie Martinez

Miami, FL

When I paint, the music blasts, I'm singing, dancing, moving, and strangely enough, meditating. When I finish a work, a common question is, "How did you do that?"  My reply is that I don't know, but I know I want to repeat the experience!

A long time friend, artist Talon Dunning, says it is obvious that I enjoy the process more than the results. Paint flies off the brush, the knife scrapes the canvas, color drips…the energy used fuels me to continue painting.  Working on a minimum of three canvases or paper at a time, I move from one to the other as I work. It is monotonous to work on one painting at a time, especially since one always gets stuck. Like writer's block, the painting will suspend its voice. On to the next piece go I, and miraculously, suddenly, the first painting whispers what it desires and I am free to continue it until it is finished.

A painting just happens….It startles how rapidly the canvas fills with color. Imagine that all you dream is of a picture, of where the colors belong, and you are kept from creating it for what seems like endless time. The release is a rush, and the canvas turns from a frightful white to a beginning of a painting. Other times, the painting wants to be coaxed and becomes one of the three or more on which I work on at time.

2007 has been a year of change. With the death of my Assistant  Mom, Angie Leon in January, my colors have turned more tonal and calm. Florida and South African scenes are dominant in landscapes. Mixed media has also found its way into most of my best work.