ABSTRACT ART - SHOW SUMMONS THE IMAGINATION
"Painter Anne Raymond's sensitive abstractions such as "Red" and "Far at Sea", evoke experiences cultivated in an atmosphere of cultural and spiritual freedom."...more


"Ms. Raymond is concerned with emotional responses to her experiences, or what one might term visual equivalents for intangible feelings. Ms. Raymond's "Morro Bay II" and "Oval Office" are, in a sense, souvenirs of specific places, but neither painting describes anything concrete about those locales. Instead, the artist pictures a mood or an aura - what it was like to be there, rather than what the surroundings looked like."


" Anne Raymond's large canvases seem poised midway between color abstraction and the spiritual transcendence of the most intense atmospheric tones."


"In an abstract idiom, Anne Raymond's monotypes are atmospheric and suggestive of an emotional response to the environment. Luminous, translucent surfaces, colors that dissolve into one another, and line that flickers over and under the tonal layers all combine in sensuous interplay."