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The result is something akin to controlled chaos.
When I started painting these florals during the 2020 pandemic, I did not imagine how much these paintings would lift me emotionally during a time of great upheaval. She is the author of Watercolor Made Easy: Portraits and has contributed to The Art of Drawing and Painting Portraits and Faces & Features.
Professional Affiliations
National Watercolor Society, Signature member
Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Signature member
Baltimore Watercolor Society, Signature member, Master Watercolor status
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
ARTIST STATEMENT
In a new series of floral paintings, words like dancing, alive, flow, rejoice, spontaneous are all part of the lexicon. After years of teaching, writing, and exhibiting across the country, she has turned her focus inward—devoting her practice to the study of connection between humans and the natural world. Her recent work explores what she calls a “language of reverence,” reflecting on the interdependence of plants and people and the emotional terrain that links them.
Throughout her career, her paintings have been collected and exhibited internationally and recognized by the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society.
I could block out the news of the virus or the US election as I brushed, dabbed, blotted, and created.
As I paint, I allow the pigment to mingle, flow, and meander across the paper. Each painting taps into that inner source of optimism and hope - that power that art wields - that can weather difficult times.
Peggi Habets is a painter based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“What is this?” is replaced by “How does this feel?” or “What is the action?” Through the use of color, textural mark-making, brushstrokes, and fluid, drippy paint, each one is filled with a movement that elicits an action or emotion.
Before starting a painting, I work with a still life arrangement or reference photo of flowers.
Bold color paired with neutrals and hard edges paired with soft or lost edges creates a feeling of aliveness and dance. Some flowers remain identifiable, and others become a pattern of shape and color. The flower shapes are then drawn in their simplest form. Habets’ work was selected from more than 7,000 entries for the prestigious Shanghai Watercolour Biennial and the Shenzhen International Watercolour Exhibition in China.
Her artwork has appeared in numerous publications, including The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist, The Art of Watercolour, L’Art de L’Aquarelle, Women United Art Magazine, and Pratique des Arts, as well as the Splash: Best of Watercolor series and Artist, Mother, Proud & Serious, Vol 2.