Meet the Artist
Doylene Land grew up in Midland, Texas. She attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas receiving her BFA in Art Education and MFA in Education with concentrated studies on teaching visual art to students who are blind and visually impaired.
For over twenty years Doylene worked with blind individuals in multiple capacities. Incorporating 3D printed art forms and objects, she developed curriculum for teaching art to students with visual disabilities, taught art classes to the blind and presented workshops regarding disabilities and art for educators and museum staff throughout Texas and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Doylene taught high school art in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico where her interest in the arts and culture of Mexico deepened. During the course of sixteen years, at the Ellen Noël Art Museum in Odessa, Texas, Doylene was an art instructor, advisor for the development of the Sculpture and Sensory Garden, worked as Curator of Exhibitions and Art Education and served as Interim Director.
“Taking time to truly explore the versatility this medium offers has allowed me to utilize elements such as texture, depth, repetition and color to best complete visual interpretations of a universal sky contrasted with personal artifacts.”
While Doylene’s career centered on education and museum work, her personal art focused on painting. Doylene recently rediscovered her desire for painting with oils.
Author Statement
“I attribute my affinity for wide-open spaces to living most of my life in west Texas. The area’s desert environment, vast sky and passing clouds have mesmerized me since childhood. I find the ephemeral cloud formations often imitate features in the landscape, and at times the colors of the sky unfathomable. I am particularly captivated by the flat, stark horizon.
As an oil painter, this horizon line and the cloudscapes are frequently incorporated in my designs. I contrast and combine disparate images of everyday objects with elements from nature, creating visual narratives. The process of painting repetitive shapes and patterns becomes a kind of meditation, and emphasizes details I find most intriguing. My paintings are a reflection of personal experiences that have evoked a particular sense of significance for me.”
