Caitlin Flynn
Jacksonville, FL
Caitlin Flynn creates work that transports the viewer to an emotional state of connection. Her work is broken into 3 sections: Daydream, Fog, and Abstract. The daydream series is figurative, grounding the viewer in human connection. Landscape transcends the viewer to an ethereal space, and finally the abstract work transports to the viewer to an emotional state. The work slowly transitions from bright and dreamy to muted and evocative.
The final stage, abstract, represents a deconstruction of images either from the media or from Flynn's studies. The images are then reassembled through painterly collage.
Flynn works with the concept of memory in her studies, often beginning with a specific experience — either her own or inspired by a photograph. Memory is fluid; figures are intentionally kept loose and gestural. She plays with paint. Like memory, it's sometimes lush and vibrant, sometimes thin and dripping away. Land and seascapes are broad and dreamy, stripped of specificity. Color, composition and mood dominate.
