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Artist Statement

The uniqueness of Genece’s work reflects the “beauty” that speaks to her; that deeply moves her. She doesn’t begin with a clear view of “what” she will paint. The work reveals itself piece by piece as she paints in the harmony of color, line, and balance until the profoundness of a theme emerges. Once the image surfaces, every brush stroke adds shapes, values, textures, movement and mood to the narrative. When the painting is complete, it calls the observer to look closer; to experience its meaning through the heart.

Genece is a digital painter in the strictest sense, which differs from other forms of digital art in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model or painting onto an existing photograph or scanned image. It is an original construction "from scratch", which has the same excitement and creative magic as painting onto canvas with oils or acrylics. It requires the same connection that is between the intuitive self and hand/eye coordination.

As a part of Genece's signature style, she produces her art onto museum grade canvas with gallery wrap (floating frames available) or archival fine art paper. Each piece is enhanced to maintain the integrity of originality and offered in small limited editions of 50.

Genece’s background in technology marketing for 20+ years introduced her to the early days of digital art. Passionate about technology and the advancement of digital art capabilities, she progressed in mastering illustration and painting techniques. Over time, she discovered a greater pleasure through traditional painting in the non-traditional way of digital painting.

Three years ago, Genece left her consulting practice in order to deeply immerse herself in the journey of producing fine art full time. Her art is shown in public and private collections and represented by galleries and art consultants. She exhibits and sells at art festivals throughout the U.S.

What does "Shibui" mean? Genece's online gallery, Shibui Studio is designed with an understated elegance to showcase the art. Shibui is a Japanese term that means the type of beauty that doesn't need announcement; its quality speaks for itself.

Genece's Technique

The new art form that has emerged from various traditional techniques of painting such as oil, watercolor and impasto paintings is what we have come to know as digital painting. As would be inferred from its name, digital painting involves making use of digital tools that require using a computer and a digitizing tablet & stylus, combined with graphics painting and illustration software.

Application Tools:

• Laptop computer

• Adobe software (Photoshop & Illustrator)

• Corel Painter II software

• Wacom Digital Tablet and Stylus Pen

Digital Painting Techniques:

• Using a blank canvas page, it starts with a wash of color.

• Typically, digital watercolor brushes are used in very thin layers of transparent colors and textures.

• While playing with color harmonies, an image surfaces in Genece's mind's eye.

• Genece sketches the image using the Wacom tablet and stylus pen.

• Using a variety of brushes and colors, Genece adds shapes, values, textures, movement and mood.

• When the painting is complete, she writes a three line poem.

"I think my digital drawing and painting career actually started at about age 10 when I was given an Etch-A-Sketch as a gift. I remember spending hours drawing pictures and learning to master curves and other shapes. The Etch-A-Sketch gave me the early skills to explore and experiment with digital art, using a mouse and one of the first painting software programs from the 80s--Mac Paint.

Why digital painting? Digital painting is not linear which means that I am able to paint in layers and then I am able to edit my art quite independently. What’s more, with digital painting it is possible for me to simply redo or even undo my brush strokes and this of course ensures a more non-linear process. However, choosing to paint digitally means I have to constantly study a variety of techniques that are basically drawn from traditional painting."