Light and Transparency

 

I found this exquisite painting at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.  It was painted by Janet Fish, an artist who explores the interactions of light and every day objects.  

Janet Fish was born in 1938 in Boston but she grew up in Bermuda.  She comes from a family of artists.  Her father was a professor of Art History and her mother was a sculptor and potter.  Her artistic connections didn't end there.  Her sister is a photographer and her grandfather was the American Impressionist painter, Clark Voorhees.  Fish knew at a young age that she wanted to be an artist.  She attended Smith College and concentrated on sculpture and print making.  After graduating from Smith, Fish enrolled in Yale University School of Art and Architecture.  It was there that she changed her focus to  painting.  She is certainly a master at light, transparency and reflections.