Painter Ireland Wisdom came of age in a Los Angeles scene anchored by an eclectic community of artists, poets, and free-thinkers, but her training in classical technique as well as the application of a Romantic language of symbolism, dress, and pose came from the Renaissance-steeped academies of Florence.
In a recent interview, art critic Shana Nys Dambrot asked Ireland about her themes and motivations and the artist noted that her work is about the “connection between painter and model, connection to our roots, to a new mythology, between light and shadow, and of course between painting and the viewer.” Ireland also discussed her classical training in Italy: “Among many other techniques, we were taught a method called Sight-Size. It is a method that Leonardo da Vinci used in the 15th century. In essence, I learned how to translate in paint the way light falls on a subject.”
Click here to read Dambrot’s full interview and to see more examples of Ireland’s work. —VV editors
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