Sandra Frazier Gallery

Letting Picasso Free Me to Take Risks

The Mystery of Picasso, a '50s documentary, was the inspiration Sandy needed to liberate herself in order to become the artist she'd always wanted to be. It was almost literally a day in the life of Picasso - the camera watching him paint, draw and create through a transparent screen that makes the viewer feel as if he or she is participating in the actual creation of his works. In one scene, Picasso stated something about the "surprising truth at the bottom of the well," which stuck with Sandy and she was able to build on that concept to create her Surrealistic Spirit series of paintings and drawings.

"Suddenly, I felt as though I'd been liberated artistically. No more would I have to be just a copyist or a value painter. I could be the colourist I'd always wanted to be and free to express that which my soul contained. Picasso's given me a new lease on life!

"To find a way to liberate myself artistically... simply because by getting into the mind of someone like Picasso who never feared risk-taking, being able to clear the conduit that leads from the imagination through the artist's body and out into the hands, without the obstruction caused by fear, hesitancy, the thought process and me always being my own worst enemy... THE FLOW is the result... and it's like water."

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