Paula Martiesian - Contemporary Painter
“Martiesian’s oils explore the relationship between nature and color, and present us, at first blush, a view of landscape unfettered and gardens unkempt. Her colors are bold, applied in sweeps and splashes, in tiny squares and sturdy lines, in semi-transparent washes and dense opacities. Yet these paintings are intricate and organized, their perfect composition belying their overt disorder. I feel the clash of the spirits of landscape and color-rich Post-Impressionist school of Fauvists, such as Matisse, Van Gogh, Cezanne, and that of the rigorous nonrepresentational abstract expressionists.“
- Roger Birn, The Jamestown Journal, November 19, 2003
