Mary Curtis Ratcliff: How I Describe Myself as an Artist
Mary Curtis Ratcliff talks about her art rooted in nature and natural phenomena, her views about her own ‘success’ as an artist, and the role of gratitude in the way she approaches her art and her life.
Mary Curtis Ratcliff talks to Kakoli Mitra about how she would describe herself. She was brought up to live a rote life according to the privilege she enjoyed as a European-American from a family with some means. However, she chose a different path for herself — a difficult path that was not financially secure — by deciding to be an artist. She has supported herself through many different kinds of odd jobs and has not stopped doing her work, her art, for the past 50 years. Her work is sculpture and two-dimensional art that incorporate a lot of natural phenomena. She is always looking at nature and taking photographs; she uses her photographs to depict what she sees as beautiful. Her photographs are incorporated into compositions that use overlay, paints, watercolor, colored pencils, graphite, and anything else to convey something about nature and the beauty of nature, the calmness of nature. Mary Curtis describes her views about her own ‘success’ as an artist, both within the wider capitalist context and her own personal values. She speaks of the role of gratitude — and how it has evolved over time — in the way she approaches her art and her life.
Mary Curtis Ratcliff (she) has been a visual artist for several decades, incorporating photography of natural phenomena into her sculptural and two-dimensional art, which she hopes can instill viewers with a sense of calm, connectedness to nature, and unhurriedness.
Europe | British Isles
United States
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