L: Joined Forces; r: Shades of Blue, Emily Mason
surfaces with blank newsprint; "it's very absorbent," she
says, noting that she prefers canvas "with a fairly tight
weave that's as smooth as possible; anything to make
the surface more receptive."
Her patient methods achieve an intensity and
luminosity of shining colors that evoke the
enchantment of a desert sunset, the glow of a seashore
sunrise, the blush of a spring garden, the ripe bounty of
a tropical grove. Her subtle variations on red and pink,
orange and tangerine, yellow and marigold, blue and lilac
are at once exquisite and exhilarating.
Mason works in an immaculate, large studio in a
Flatiron District loft building. North light bathes the
main area through tall arched windows and personal
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