Serene Greene

About Serene Greene

My origins are in Los Angeles and I was raised in Oregon. I have lived in England, Vancouver BC and Southern Ca.and currently divide my life between Los Angeles and Portland.I am always working on new images and visual vocabulary to express within my large abstract paintings. I am fascinated by the layering of history and experiences, and the visual memories left behind in the cultural and architectural landscape. The textures and forms in cities and streets create a visual landscape to be interpreted into the lines and notes. One of my greatest influences is a life-long love of Jazz. My work is a visual soundtrack, calligraphic in nature, and fused with the emotions of color. Created with successive layers of images, written messages, texture and color, they fuse techniques of painting and drawing, and represent the excavating of secrets and unrevealed life.

I usually work on several bodies of work concurrently. I also create site specific commissions for indoor sites. The paintings, drawings and prints, cross pollinate each other and are like individual movements in a composition. Painting is like a story which stimulates the imagination and draws the mind into a place filled with expectation, excitement, and a mystery to be interpreted by the viewer. It is a very luminous art form reflecting emotions with color and experience with line.