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Hinckley’s ethereal abstract
paintings and watercolors have nuanced references to landscape and botanical motifs. Her paintings tend toward the muted and minimal, though the newer paintings have a bolder palette and lush sur- face, allowing the artist’s process to reveal itself through brushwork and other painterly accidents. The overall presence of Hinckley’s work is gentle and meditative, a manifesta- tion of her longtime involvement with yo- gic practice and a keen observation of the world around her.
Hinckley’s paintings and watercolors stem primarily from her encounters with her sur- roundings—triggered by a color, a shape, an impression, an emotion, or a memory. Her childhood was spent on Cape Cod where she grew up surrounded by expansive sea and sky awash with light. These memories remain the core of her inspiration and the source that imbues her paintings with a dis- tinctive quality of light. She cites other artis- tic in uences such as Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, ‘60s formalist color eld painting, and the method of Monet’s late paintings.
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