ABOUT THE ARTISt

biography

Quincy Anderson is a Seattle-area abstract artist whose richly layered paintings draw on a lifelong connection to the natural world. Raised between lake and sea, her work reflects rhythms of water, light, and landscape, using acrylic, oil ink, silk tissue, and collage to create textured surfaces that shift as the viewer moves. Her creative journey includes study in France, Japan, and across continents, and a long career as both artist and educator. Anderson’s practice balances gesture and structure, inviting contemplation of nature’s patterns and mysteries. She has exhibited widely for more than four decades and is represented by Museo Gallery in Langley, Washington.

STATEMENT

Living where the forest touches the sea allows me to observe the dynamism and power of nature through all seasons. My images explore mosaics of light: patterns of reflections and shadows, rhythms of waves, erratic delicate pathways of falling leaves. The work is an expression of the balance between nature’s energetic chaos and peaceful harmony.

My process is all about layering. I often begin by rubbing silk tissue on embossed surfaces I find or create, and then explore gesture drawing and fluid paints on the textured surface of the canvas. Between layers I add or wipe away as partial images appear. This technique helps me to reveal my language of symbols — the spirals and waves, the paths of light and dark — in my composition. I am interested in what still remains enigmatic.

This search for what lies beneath, above and beyond; this reaching towards the mystery, is not to explain it but to celebrate it. I hope my images pull the viewer into the space, intrigue them, stimulate them to contemplate the beauty and power of nature.