Mollie Freeman
185 Harrison Avenue

Oils, Watercolors and Water Media

www.freemanartgallery.com

Many artists paint dancers because they are beautiful, as are the spaces they tend to inhabit. I am drawn to dancers because I love the medium of dance itself, especially dance as worship. I am drawn to moments of joy, movement, and especially moments of spiritual connection.

Through my own art, as well as through the art of others I connect with my Creator, so the process of painting itself has become increasingly enjoyable and important to me. I appreciate the various properties of different brushes and the unique marks they make. Various types of paint and colors have different consistencies and opacities. I want to see evidence of all this in the final work. A childlike process of discovery, combined with the experience of careful study brings me through stages of maddening exasperation and profound delight as the work unfolds. My hope is that each of my paintings can provide the viewer a sliver of the history of my creative process and, more importantly, a glimpse beyond the visual.

Mollie Walker Freeman received her BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri in 1989. When her five children were younger, she took a hiatus from painting in order to devote her energy to the demands of child rearing and home-schooling. Since moving to Loveland, Colorado in 2001, she has returned to painting with renewed vision and vigor. Mollie�s other creative passions include dance and gardening. Together with her husband, Scott, she also shares a passion for incorporating the arts in worship.