Artist Statement My current work incorporates acrylics, gold leaf, metal powders, and silk tissue on paper and canvas. This process involves freedom and discipline working together to allow the spirit to function. The greatest joy comes when a painting takes on its own wings. In a fleeting moment it moves outside my control; I become a conduit. My desire is to be open to sensations and to express these visually, with spontaneity and confidence. The images are quickly absorbed, what remains is the living “being” of a work of art. For me, color is not color until it arrives at a degree of resonance which can be heard. My way is intuitive; life furnishes the raw materials with all its chaotic profusion. When the viewer connects with my work, I feel a deep sense of completion. Exhibitions and Juried Shows Durham Art Guild Juried Show - Fay Gold, Juror, 2003 Fayetteville Museum of Art, January 1997 Broadhurst Gallery – Women’s US Open, Pinehurst, NC 1996 Arizona Aqueous – Tubac, AZ 1995 Southeastern Watercolor VII – Deland Museum of Art, Deland, FL, 1993 Corporate Art Collections North Carolina, Durham Arts Council, 1988 Images of North Carolina, Glaxo Inc., 1988 River Run Gallery, Group Show, 1988 Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC 1977 – 1995 Weatherspoon Gallery, Art on Paper, Greensboro, NC 1982 Selected Collections Cardinal Bank, Durham, NC – NationsBank, NC