Dale Wayne (she/her/hers)
Orlando, FL
"The alcohol inks that I use for my art demand room and will not tolerate much control, which can be challenging, but is always invigorating. As I layer colors, senses of places both familiar and new emerge into pathways that turn into landscapes. A run-away drop becomes a rooftop. I slide the side of my brush and a stone fence appears. A repeated stroke might evoke a stand of trees or a field of hay. I become lost in worlds within worlds as the painting changes, until the colors tell me it is time to stop and the finished piece holds within it a place for the viewer to go.”
Dale Wayne grew up in a military family and lived in a variety of locations, with a particular affinity for her time in France. The landscapes she creates in alcohol inks bring her back to early memories of gathering lavender in the fields with her family. Dale used to work as an art teacher, but could no longer work after developing a disability due in part to a work accident and leaving her with severe joint problems, chronic pain, and debilitating fatigue. Despite multiple corrective surgeries, Dale Wayne has lost much of her mobility due to intense chronic pain and now utilizes her art as a form of travel. She engages in art as a way to reconnect with memories and travel through her imagination, letting herself get lost in the process.
“I feel a contentment from the sense of losing myself. I am very self-conscious, always worrying about what people think. When I create, I am lifted out of that and have a sense of just being; being my best self. It can be intense, like running a race, but in the end, there is a restful satisfaction. With the inks, I feel like I am traveling, taking side roads, getting stuck in the mud, coming upon a sunlit glade. When I finish, it is as though I arrive at a place I have already been.”
Dale feels that art gives her life. She describes: “Whatever time is invested comes back in renewed life. Sometimes, I am desperately depressed and I make myself watch colors move on the tile. It lifts me. I am grateful for my studio space where I can create, regardless of my mobility.
Dale finds inspiration in Daniel Hillel’s words: “I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.’ Art helps me keep dancing.”
read morePrints by Dale Wayne (she/her/hers)
After the Gleaners
Dale WayneArmoire at Giverny
Dale WayneAuvers in Autumn
Dale WayneAuvers in Spring
Dale WayneAuvers in Spring II
Dale WayneAuvers Vineyard
Dale WayneAuvers, Early Summer
Dale WayneCandy Mountains
Dale WayneDining at Giverny
Dale WayneDistant Lavender
Dale WayneDividing the Waters
Dale WayneEarly Dawn Sea
Dale WayneEnd of the Storm
Dale WayneFlamenco Dancer in Red
Dale WayneGemstone Strata
Dale WayneHistory of the Earth
Dale WayneLate Summer Vineyard
Dale WayneLavender Borders
Dale WayneLinden Mist
Dale WayneLullaby and Goodnight
Dale WayneMauve Horizons
Dale WayneOn the Way to Roussillon
Dale WayneRiver of Life in Red
Dale WayneRoadside Lavender
Dale WayneSanta Fe Memories
Dale WayneSeaside Horizon at Midday
Dale WayneSource
Dale WayneStill Waters
Dale WayneSunrise Meditation
Dale WayneThe Beginning of Time at Day Break
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