Paula Perdue

"As a child I loved to make things - arrangements of things. As a young person I studied art at the University of Missouri where I graduated in 1971. As an adult I've spent the last 30 years selling antique art as a small business and painting and selling landscapes and figure paintings of my own.

My paintings are most often of the figure or landscape; but, I paint whatever strikes me as interesting. My landscapes are usually of structures. I like the structure of things and the way light reveals its. In that respect figures and landscapes seem very much alike to me.

I own watercolors, alkyds, oils, pastels, acrylics and a closet of other things. I use them all.

Several years ago I rediscovered how much fun building things can be. Since then I have been working with plaster, wire, clay, and papier mache. I guess I am now making structures as well as painting them. Sometimes these objects stand alone and I leave them unadorned. Sometimes I use the objects as surfaces for painting.

In the last year I have been experimenting with print making, something I haven't done since college. I have been creating mono prints of the human figure that I like very much.

When asked what kind of art I do, I do not have a simple answer. I do whatever seems interesting to me at the time. To the observer it may seem I am doing very different things. To me these things seem very much alike. I enjoy using different tools to say the same thing."

Florida artist Paula Perdue's sophisticated, elegant works reflect her innate love of form and structure. Her works are currently available in fine galleries and many private collections throughout the Southeast.

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