Orange Cloth, Zinnias, and Sea, watercolor, 24" x 18"
Sandra Caplan’s work (oil paintings, pastels, drawings and watercolors) exudes color and light. Anything but “still” life, they are lushly packed with the evidence of life and growth – flowers, vegetables and fruit, the sea and sky… one drinks in the close-up world and then moves to the freedom and openness of the world surrounding it. The eye travels from object to object; foreground to background, to foreground once more. Energy is found in the dynamic, yet never distracting movement of brushstroke, particularly in the watercolors. Indeed, nothing feels too busy – just richly enticing. Reminiscent of Cezanne, Caplan changes angle and point of view within the same work, creating for the viewer, a sense of shifting in relation to the objects viewed.
- Susan Hartenstein, excerpt from review, The Wave, Rockaway Artists Alliance