Wendy Olson - painting, sculpture, and functional objects

The Imagery that I use is a visual journal of my life. Narratives of family relationships, motherhood, and everyday life, family trips to the county fair, stories about friends and real town characters are also frequently used as inspiration for my work. Although my work often has a humorous undercurrent, it is not a mockery of my subjects, rather an attempt to understand and even glorify them. The effort to transcend what I have experienced is always present; the effort to connect the commonplace with the universal and the universal back with the commonplace. Personal iconography and symbols represent and reveal the mood, secrets, and underlying importance of that particular journal entry in the form of a painting and/or ceramic work.