Strathmore Show : La Vie en Bleu

Really enjoyed the opening reception, on Thursday, January 5th, 2017, in the Strathmore Mansion at the Strathmore Center for the Arts in North Bethesda. The show, "La Vie en Bleu" features the color blue, itself. The piece that juried in, is titled…

Take Five

A while back, a friend stopped by and pointed out the importance of keeping some of by best work for myself. If everything goes away, you have nothing left representing your proudest creative moments. Very good point. Despite my…

Drawing Show!!!

Well, after a few years and a lot of drawing, much that was never posted, I'm finally having a drawing show. at the Lorton Workhouse Arts Center Studios, where I've been happily creating away. Busy working a massive visual musical…

In and of Itself

As mentioned previously, I'm working on numerous projects right now. One of which is simple shapes. (https://brittconley.com/2012/03/05/mobius-stripped/) They counter the mental haul I'm having to endure over my big project and allow me to explore the purity of shape for shapes…

September 17, 2009
Britt Conley
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I drew these for my Mom back in May. She was going through a rough time. Well she is again and thus I am posting them again. She deserves all the flowers she can get. She was rushed to the…

Portrait sketch

It's been a long day today. I'm tired. Despite this I wanted to work on another portrait sketch for a new series that will be brought up in paint. Here is a glance of what is to come.

Simplicity

Sometimes the best designs are the simple ones.

Pencil Meets Paper

It's the weekend and a long week it's been. I have big plans to just be and I thought I'd start tonight where pencil meets paper. Only three objectives this weekend, get some serious painting time, do a little…

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.