LandEscape Art Review // Special Issue | Page 115

Gail Factor
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
What fascinates us about Ms . Factor ' s approach is this diversity of visual ideas that she worked with and how she balanced them together .
What defines her unique position as an artist is my mother ’ s own well-honed ability to weave her concepts together . The elements she worked with are personal , taken from her life experience , her emotions and always her immediate surroundings . Using these as notional components that guided her compositions , she applied her great gift of maintaining balance and harmony both with form , texture , and color .
It seems that a lot of her painting focused on the intersection between the tangible world and imagination . Is this something she intended , or is it incidental to something else ?
Yes , in a way , it is the tangible world translated into the abstract realm residing in her consciousness , though maybe just below awareness . You can see that she drew on her technical abilities and years spent studying physical surroundings as a platform to transcend into ethereal form and meaning .
Ms . Factor ' s paintings could be considered as visual biographies : while striving for pure