Xan Sinclair Koonce Artist’s Statement My desire to understand spirituality and its transformational power motivates my work. My objective is to magnify nature beyond its literal meaning to explore the relationship between nature and spirituality. I was born and raised in West Texas where the only vivid color that permeated the bleak landscape was the endless blue sky. Today, I reside in Georgetown, Texas, where I have grown to appreciate the color and beauty that Central Texas reveals. While caring for my family and working as a professional event planner, I earned a bachelor of arts in art at Southwestern University, the oldest institution of higher education in Texas. I am interested in taking the beauty I see and abstracting it to gain greater insight. Once inspired, I unapologetically apply seductive and radiant colors to my paintings as an expression of my growth, strength, control and endurance. As I paint, my primary concern is conveying that sensual experience through color, line and composition. All of my artistic pursuits stem from a passion for beauty and a reverence for the power that beauty has to transform life. In a world where ugliness, destruction and hopelessness pervade, I want my art to be a counter force for what is positive, inspiring and beautiful.