ERIN DOLAN ART STUDIO

My painting process is deeply rooted in the memories I experience in real time moments of observation, sensing, and noticing that later return to me in the studio. I attune myself to these present-tense impressions: the quiet expansion of sunrise, the shifting saturation of color at dusk, the way bees drift around summer flowers. These sensory fragments become layered into the work, not as literal depictions but as felt recollections that guide form, rhythm, and mood.
Through rhythmic fields of gesture and texture, I build images that hover between presence and disappearance, as though they are actively forming or slipping away. Color remains central to my practice; I gravitate toward unexpected relationships and use shifting palettes to evoke atmosphere, place, and the emotional residue of remembered experience. Subtle variations in opacity and form invite slow, contemplative looking, encouraging viewers to be live and present as the painting reveals more as you slow down and observe.