Intimate Landscapes by Loriann Signori

For more information, contact curator Loriann Signori at lsignori@verizon.net

Opening Reception: Friday, April 8, 6-9 pm
Demonstration: Saturday, April 16, 3-5 pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12-6 pm

Signori’s landscapes, inspired by the Maryland hills and waters, are an intimate view of ephemeral beauty. Distinctive and serene Signori paints the landscape we feel, not see. Her compositions infer worldly objects–trees, fields, flowers, rivers, but only where their boundaries begin and end is open to inteSignori’s interpretive style allows the viewer to focus on the profound beauty of the landscape. Her paintings achieve their visual glow through a process that starts with an under painting. She first coats the surface with an analogous color or using gold leaf and lets it dry. She then applies colors by brush or uses her fingers to blend pastels in thin layers of transparent and opaque glazes. “That is where the method ends and the possibilities begin,” says Signori. The constant layering with wax medium or fixative allows her to build an opalescent surface. Each painting is a sensorial and emotional experience for Signori. Her work draws the viewer in and allows them to wander and wonder.

Signori, a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, received her BFA and MFA from Swain School of Design and American University. She learned her craft painting landscapes directly from nature. Over time she became increasingly engaged with the more abstract and spiritual aspects of landscapes and began to pursue a more expressive style. The Washington Post says, “Signori walk(s) away from the specific and toward the transcendental.”