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About seven years ago, the self-taught artist began to paint seriously inspired by her love knots to explore geometric abstraction. She has made her debut as an artist with a show at the San Antonio Central Library Art Gallery.
With bright, bold primary colors, her geometric forms are mostly composed of straight lines, but the lines zig and zag in unexpected ways, creating optical illusions in her large scale canvases.
“From my early experience, I gained the desire to find my place in the world,” Schatz said. “My place is the organization, structure, control and painting of large, colorful, geometric renditions.”
“I began the painting with that line that represents my path through life and then added the other colors, I believe color is the key to human enjoyment of ‘the variety of God’s being. Our humanity requires color to aid us in our efforts to differentiate the many styles and categories of beauty around us.”
Most of her paintings weave together straight lines and simple geometric forms such as rectangles, squares and the occasional circle, filled in with bright, brilliant colors. She signs her name to each painting, but she also includes a tiny life like rose. “The rose came from my father,” Schatz said. “He always said that I should embrace life and people like a mixed bouquet of roses.”
