Lindsay Radford Wiggins is a multi-media artist and photographer currently

concentrating in watercolor and fine art oil paintings. She was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama and now resides in Columbia, SC where she completed her BA in Studio Art from Columbia College in 2011.

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Lindsay currently works from her home studio in Columbia, SC. Many of her

works can be seen in personal, business and gallery collections in the South

Carolina area.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

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An abundance of color is one of nature’s ultimate blessings. No one is unmoved at the sight of a rainbow, and no two people see it exactly the same way. Perception depends on how the light bends and refracts back to the viewer. I love that my art can elicit a whole spectrum of experience from audiences. Today, I paint with little agenda other than conjuring joy and positivity, the reward I have discovered in meditation. Meditation changed me, and it changed my work.

 

My creative influences are vast but lean heavily toward surrealists Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, and Frida Kahlo. All are known for themes ranging from alchemy and fantasy to introspection and rebirth. I also admire the German expressionists. I love the mystery of surrealist and expressionist art. 

 

I often infuse my art with images of my beloved rainbow-groomed poodles, Smooch and Ziggy. They represent for me the harmony and bliss that I want to share with others. For me, the sentient presence of animals promotes balance and empathy, and I love incorporating them into my paintings. 

 

My most recent works in watercolor are generously celestial in mood and astrological in imagery. I have always been obsessed with stars. I like the narratives and stories generated from astrology, and I like to think I am telling individual stories in my art. The stories are personal to me, almost like baring some of the content from my personal journal. That intimacy, I think, is part of art’s mission, to draw people in and electrify synapses that lead to new insights.