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“我喜欢能够创造一个缓慢展开的画面。我的希望是，一个人看着完成的作品能够与图像有长期的关系——随着时间的推移，会发现很多细微差别。在每幅画中，我都在经历一种警觉的过程，在这种过程中，当我的想法出现时，我努力保持对它们的忠实，即使我无法解释它，或者它看起来像是一个艰难的转折点。”—— Betsy Walton

Artist Betsy Walton loosely imitates the landscape of Portland, Oregon in paintings infused with geodesic rocks and female subjects dressed as spellbinding goddesses. Walton works in layers, leaving some areas of the paintings bare with minimal sketches, while others have been painted, mixed with new media, or patched over multiple times.

“I paint over old versions of images so that there is a kind of memory to the painting,” she explains to Colossal. “I like being able to create an image that slowly unfolds. My hope is that a person looking at the finished work is able to have a long relationship with the image—lots of nuance to discover over time.”

Although Portland’s winters have become a primary point of inspiration, Walton likes to also bring in elements of travel by including flora that exist outside of the Pacific Northwest. She also includes natural phenomena or invisible structures that we might not see in everyday life, such as winding tree roots or the ribs of a female subject. “In each painting I am working through a kind of mindfulness process wherein I try to stay faithful to my ideas as they arise, even if I can’t explain it or it seems like a hard turn from where I started,” she explains. “It’s a delicate dance between unconditional acceptance of new ideas and subsequent editing phases where I try to refine the image and gain more clarity in the expression of the image’s story. ”

Walton’s first solo exhibition will open in May 2020 at Stephanie Chefas Projects in Portland. You can view more of her paintings on her website and Instagram.

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理念与使命

Idea and Mission

“艺术是一棵树摇动另一棵树，一朵云推动另一朵云，一个灵魂唤醒另一个灵魂。作为艺术家应该承担着改变人们生活的责任，应该学会成为真正的创作者，而不仅仅是当做一个职业。”

Fox是首家研发了“线下线上1+1”作品集跨界课程体系的国际艺术工作室。旗下还设有展览馆、产品开发基地、设计师经纪公司等多个部门。核心团队由英国伦敦中央圣马丁、美国帕森斯、英国皇家等顶尖艺术学院海归设计师、艺术家以及专家教授在2010年于伦敦和北京共同创立。

Fox国际艺术坚持传达狐狸精神-无畏、自由和颠覆。保持的使命是启发创意的无限延伸，倾尽全力创造平等机会、提倡多样性、充满活力与革新精神的工作环境，这也使工作室能吸引最有才能和创造力的设计师团队。不同文化的冲击，力求独特、创意、自由、甚至是极端反叛的艺术氛围，创意在这里并不是纸上谈兵。

Fox的设计师与学员，无论是背景还是专业能力都是业界首屈一指，与众多知名一线品牌、著名博物馆合作过，如大英博物馆、V&A博物馆、德国国立宝石博物馆、Gucci、Cartier、Alexander McQueen、施华洛世奇、Gareth Pugh、John Galliano、Dior、Alexander Wang、Giles Deacon、陈奕迅、余文乐等。