C. Drummond's vivid paintings fan out before us with recurring visual themes that dance across the canvas and open up like exotic foliage. C. Drummond lives and works in the USA, yet she was born in Rio de Janeiro, and her work captures the tropical colors and ecstasy of Carnaval. Motion is inherent in her subject matter--her passion is in movement, whether of the light falling upon a checkerboard of favela rooftops, or people bustling in a busy market. Even her most tranquil scenes, with patterns akin to those on a seashell, are laden with pulsing energy, and a love of the mysteries of sensory experience.
As aesthetic studies of the natural world and its dynamics, these works are at heart explorations of the relation between individual shape and how it absorbs color. They are ecstatic, but they are not chaotic. C. Drummond's paintings inspire the brain, and encourage our gaze to dance with her across the canvas, as she takes the lead in our entry to that world.
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