Rita Dungey

Nature’s organic shapes, colors, and movements are the foundation of my seascapes and landscapes. With each painting, I explore, experiment, express, and evolve what I have taken in visually and from memory. To capture nature’s changing vitality, I abstract and blur the boundaries of realism to suggest a time and place of light, atmosphere, movement, and emotion.

I start a painting with complete openness and trust in how a composition will unfold and where it will take me. I create texture and energize forms and surfaces by building layers and deliberately manipulating shapes, colors, and space. My process also involves leaving nature to its work , where seemingly unrelated components cross paths, interact, or organize.

At the heart of my work is a need to explore and discover. In these abstract land and sea paintings I visually share my impressions of nature’s vibrant, spontaneous, mysterious sensual qualities.

Rita Kirsch Dungey, 2021