still life – Britt Conley

Still fruit

Still working on technique and style. Fruit is a great way to work on both. Tonight is an apple and a pear. This is the second time I've thought I was actually getting somewhere with this drawing. It's…

Materials matter

I received a message the other week asking... "Any still lifes yet?" Well it has been a while. So tonight I have drawn a cup of brushes. After finishing it I realized one big mistake. The biggest Brush is…

Note to Self

I left this one blank so that I could mentally fill it in. It's a nice way for me to start my new list this week of all things I should be doing, hopefully by the end of the…

My interests are in visualizing the physics of music, musicality itself, composers thought processes and what orchestration looks like, the physicality of performance, sounds, essentially, all things musically related. My art is more about the integral thought processes and physical nuances that unique musical performance and authorship, brings. My visual music it meant to expand peoples ideas about art and music experience. Visualizing conceptual considerations of music has always been a preoccupation of mine. I spent my youth at the foot of my mother's piano jumping around, trying to catch all the colors that would emerge from the air, as she played her favorite pieces. I didn't realize until much later that I have synesthesia. I see color and feel touch when I hear sounds, especially musical ones. One of the many joys of having a public studio is the rare chance to meet other synesthetes who immediately ask me if I have synesthesia after seeing the art.