Mariella Bisson

Artist

Studio Fenario, Woodstock NY

I live to explore color, delve into textures and revel in the endless subtleties of paint itself. My space is called Studio Fenario - a fenario is a wild place, an unknown region, a place in a myth or a song.

Happiness is having another sold-out show at the amazing Momentum Gallery in Asheville, NC. My husband and I are planning a move to Brevard, NC at some time in 2026. Brevard and Cashiers, NC are known as The Land of 1000 Waterfalls. Sign Me Up!

Momentum always has a the widest selection of my paintings and work on paper. www.Momentumgallery.com

The Kentler International Drawing Space Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY I’ll have a work in a group show, selected from the Kentler Flatfiles by artists Robert Lucy in conjunction with his solo show, opening Feb. 14 4-6. You can find me at the Gallery on Sunday the 15th noon- 2.

Bayview Gallery, Brunswick, Main: a pair of small color-rich landscapes www.BayviewGallery.com

Ann Connelly Fine Arts: a small set of work - but they’re big ones including 60 X 96 and 68 X 74. www.AnnConnelly.com

Artist’s Statement: My images of water, rocks and trees are filled with purposeful energy. Water is in constant motion, just as our own footsteps are endlessly moving, circling, coming and going, leaving and returning. Forces of nature compete and collide. Shapes within my compositions push against one another, intertwine, overlap and recede into space. Sunlight, as it plays across landscape forms, invites contrast in darkness and calls to the colors in shade and shadows. I achieve a deep three-dimensional space with the use of overlapping and application of colors – from light to dark with all stops in between and from warm to cool. I make my large mixed media paintings based on field drawings and watercolors painted on site in nature. I find essential shapes to convey my story and then apply paper collage glued to the linen over custom stretchers or on wood panels. An archival sealant is applied to prepare the paper to receive oil paint. My final surface of oil paint gives my work depth and finish.

I seek the universal in choosing my compositions. I want people to understand what they are seeing and relate it to their own lives – even subconsciously, feeling its energy in their own bodies or comparing the “characters” they see – rocks, trees, streams, roots, foliage- to aspects of their own experience, their own struggle for survival, their feelings of being rooted in home or routine, the flow and resistance they might encounter in life. We are all standing on one planet. The rivers of the earth and the clouds above are all one system, always changing, part of everyone’s experience, ever beautiful, in constant motion.