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On  the  Art  of  Lee  Lawson

 

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. 

author of Women Who Run With the Wolves

 

Lee Lawson's gifts as an artist are evident not only in her superb 

technical skills, nor only in the ethereal palette she creates for her work.

 Even more so her gifts derive from an ability that  is older than time

........... the ability to envision. 

 

She has clear memory of things that dance hide, misbehave, 

dream, sleep, appear  and disappear in the human psyche.

In myths and dreams, the unconscious, both collective and 

personal, is often symbolically portrayed as a great body of water. 

 

Lee Lawson's work clearly reflects those oceans that surge and thrive

 beneath our mundane consciousness.  She is as much a shapechanger

 as she is an artist; a human being one moment, a sea creature the next. 

 

Only a person who navigates the interior life on a regular basis 

can consistently bring such spare but evocative images to canvas. 

 

Her work, most richly viewed as both inner and outer seeing, testifies 

to the fact that she is a rare artist especially skilled in bringing 

to the surface mysterious yet clearly stated first person accounts

 of the deep imaginal world.

 

                                                                                                                             C.P.E.