Ridgefield Artist, Nina Daryanani approaches each painting by looking at the relationship between the object and its shadow. An outdoor oil painter, she often positions herself facing the sun so that the foreground of her paintings features the shadow first. “The object tells us what it is, but the shadow that tells us when.” Daryanani’s reason for painting is simple – to evoke memory. “I want to transport the viewer to that exact moment. They must really feel the warm sunlight and hear the birds.” Her work is primarily figurative, with a hint towards abstraction because of the absence of unnecessary details. The large brushstrokes do the work of suggesting form and simplifying the scene. “We never remember the details, only the big shapes and colors.”
See the artist and her work at Ridgefield’s Music & Art in July and the Ridgefield Art Walk in August or visit: www.NinaDaryanani.com for a custom art commission.
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