Shelley Horton-Trippe

Orlando
oil on canvas, 24x24", 2006
 
 
There is a feel of the bodice-ripping romance novel to Horton-Trippe's paintings, and despite the evanescence of these paintings, there is a pysicality to them that is visceral, like meat ripped clean from the bone by a hungry animal.
Kathryn M. Davis