The watercolor paintings in Chambers build on ideas explored in A Ruched Life, a 2007 installation piece and Around the Corner, a 2005 series of paintings.

Mt. Pleasant, a mid-eighteenth century Colonial mansion in Philadelphia is the specific reference for Chambers. Traditional watercolor techniques including transparent veiled washes as well as translucent, but super-saturated paint define compositions that juxtapose orderly arrangements of windows, doors, and Georgian-style woodwork against crumbling fireplaces and peeling plaster. The colors employed, such as a plum-violet ceiling or chartreuse-green walls, are jubilant fantasies (the actual walls in the mansion are neutral grays and creamy whites.)

Please see the Drawings section of my website where many of the studies for this work are on view.

Most of this work is available, some of the pieces are framed.

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