Francine Shore

The connection of finding an object, figure, landscape, then translating it, has been her primary focus. The journey from figure to "place" happened when she started "painting out" everything that wasn't essential, that seemed like an overstatement. She starts with an idea, not a plan, and work until the painting dictates, what to do.     Imagery has become reductive, released from gravity, and set free from a horizon line.  Light drifts through thick/thin layered spaces.Surfaces become a depository of reflected and refracted light. Her images retain residual references to the object, mixed with and incorporating the intrinsic nature of paint, mixtures of mediums, canvas, paper, board, and it's transcendent reality.

Sperlonga Series

Casa Luna Series

Pond Series

Pompeii Townscapes

Campri Series / Monteporzio Catone