Martha Spieker

Mixed Media

Studio #6
Spieker Art Studio
551 Lopez Road

spiekerart.com
spiekerart@gmail.com
(206) 369-4140

Like most people I loved art projects as a kid, I just never stopped. I paint and make things because it helps me to see the world more clearly.  I slow down and see the things around me that we only superficially glance at day to day.  Whether I am drawing or painting from real life, imagination or abstraction there is a shift, a change in my perception of life.  

I work in a variety of mediums.  My life has been filled with many other things leading to many starts and stops in my painting.  For years I was obsessed with lines and circles but that obsession has slowly evolved into color.  I make little distinction between mediums as it is the color that fascinates me. I guess I’m a multimedia artist.  Life sparks an idea and that is translated into a concept that only works in a specific medium in my mind. Some painting are done for the love of a place (many landscapes of Lopez), for the fulfillment of a concept (my ongoing series of what can you do with vial lids) or the conceptualization of a feeling (my abstract work). The list goes on.