ABOUT DARREL

As an abstract painter, Darrel Simpson uses nature and landscape as her points of departure. She creates light filled journeys into the places between what we see and what we feel. 

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Through bold brush marks, sweeping charcoal or graphite lines and smudges, along with collage and the use of palette knives, Darrel weaves her texture to achieve a tactile surface which offers a timeless balance between the concealed and the exposed.

Her artwork is connecting to “a shared idea of the unrestricted self that still finds joy in a fleeting glimpse of light and shade”. This takes form in its abstract nature.

Darrel says “I try not to invoke emotions with representational imagery from my surroundings, but rather lead the viewer into their own.”

“Maybe they'll see something that I didn't even intend for them to see. I feel that's part of the beauty of art.”