Belle Prosser

Belle Prosser is an artist creating tonally rich cloudscapes residing in Huntsville, Alabama. Prosser studied oil painting at the University of Montevallo, where she earned a BFA in 2017. Her work embraces the technical challenge of exaggerating the ephemerality of cloud formations by utilizing the opaque medium of oil on canvas. Her paintings represent abstraction found in nature: the distortion of color and light that is projected in the sky above.

My work focuses on the universally experienced imagery of clouds. I tone canvases with vibrant hues and allow color to influence the formation of the cloudscapes I create. The ephemeral nature of clouds leads me to consider them a form of abstraction in nature. In my work, I use this imagery to vacillate between representative and abstract painting. I heighten the feeling of abstraction by omitting subject matter that would bring the context of scale to my compositions. I want viewers to be able to visually land in these pieces and be offered a backdrop to project their personal moment by moment perceptions of consciousness.