Artist's Biography

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D M Bass is an author-artist creating fine art and artful fiction in CO. Her fine art, expressed through oil painting, explores her subjects in many ways and styles. She has a fondness for painting colorful fruits and vegetables, houses and plants rooted in time or season, and collections of household items. She employs cakes to tell stories. Current themes in her still life work use plastics and embroidery-like embellishment to represent aspects of globalism.  She holds a degree in architecture and a minor in English with a concentration in deconstructionist poetry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She holds an MBA from CU Denver. Her art education comes from studying and practicing architecture alongside a lifelong passion for drawing and painting. She's a regular participant in the contemporary artist Rob Gratiot's "Developing Your Own Style..." classes at the Arts Students League of Denver. Her past artwork can be found in homes in Virginia, Washington DC, Florida, Texas, and Colorado. 

My art work is inspired by the impermanence of what I see and touch directly. Favorite subjects are beautiful interplays of color and form that tell a story.  I enjoy the juxtaposition of the living and the inanimate and subjects with different histories. Lemons in China cups and houses from different centuries are examples. I seek to capture the life each represents, their light. My compositions are drawn or blocked onto my canvases in traditional ways. The process thereafter describes tones, emphasizes relationships, and defines edges. Though out it, I work to see beyond my expectations and improve my painting skills. When I've expressed a scene meaningfully, I sign my name. 

I hope you find inspiration in my paintings!  D M Bass