Artist Statement: My design strives to connect the ideas of community and spontaneity: a riot of flowers growing together, sprouting out of a field of abstract color. The undercoat is improvised, letting the natural flow and drip of paint create something surprising. Then over the top, flowers are outlined in black, letting the color underneath show through. The feeling I’m trying to capture is similar to what I feel when my husband finds a piano in public and plays something lovely! We always feel very connected to the world in those moments, but they are not planned and so they end up being even more precious, since we do not know when they might happen again.
Rachel D’Erminio is a Concord based illustrator. Her philosophy is that each piece of art is the beginning of a shared story. She tries to capture a single moment—stepping into a secret garden, discovering a lost map, meeting a new friend—and lets the viewer imagine the before and after, the motivations and the emotions that complete the narrative.
