True creates from the place where the world of dreams and mythology intersects with the enchantment of nature and the lived human experience.
Her paintings are influenced by the healing practices she has gathered across the decades as a transpersonal psychologist and yoga practitioner. Whether drawing from world mythologies or energies from her personal cosmology, True’s painting celebrate the potential of human consciousness.
True paints in acrylic often using an adaptation of the mische technique, a method of layering with glazes first developed by the 15th Century Flemish Masters. It is not uncommon for her to incorporate transparencies into her paintings in which two or more images are overlayed to communicate the multiplicity of reality and planes of existence.
More recently, her technique has evolved to incorporate a layering of repetitive brush strokes deepened by alternating with layers of glaze. The intention behind this technique is to communicate the sense of energy flowing in and out of form that is both a part of and yet distinct from an eternal, formless whole.
For the final two paintings in this series, Birth and Consciousness, True departed from these techniques, allowing form to soften while still holding an intentional composition. A very wet canvas was laid with layers of diluted acrylic, alternating with layers of water and paint, and finished with dry brushing.
In addition to her career as an artist, True is also the founder of True Whiting Studio for Art and Wellbeing in Winston-Salem where she works as a transpersonal psychologist. The studio not only features her own work but regularly hosts the work of local artists on a rotating basis.
True makes a donation from each original painting she sells in support of environmental protection, social justice and world hunger.
