How did you develop your unique style and why?
Carole Belliveau: I put away my brushes determined to teach myself to use new tools such as palette knife, scrapers, mediums and new colors to describe the high desert. I changed many of my paints to transparent ones, determined to build paintings that had levels of light filled darks building to opaque impastos. I wanted to lose my edges and paint more freely with color notes. Changing my approach to paint application became a personal expression of my enthusiastic love of painting here.
How do you find inspiration?
Carole Belliveau: The state is filled with historic adobe ruins and architectural rock formations under an ever-changing sky. There is a comradery here of artists that have the same passions for the Native American adobe structures, the multi-colored desert grasses and the flat Mesa’s cut against the ever-present turquoise skies. Inspiration finds me!
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