#26 - Ch'ieh

 acrylic on canvas

Creation Series

The entire painting functions as a single meditative and iconic image. A fusion of these coloristic, meditative signs with the overall iconic function of the color field has already been achieved in the most recent paintings; and the artist is presently accomplishing this fusion at higher and higher levels of psychic, and consequently formal, complexity.

Eminent scholar Robert Ferris Thompson has remarked that Isham's paintings "provide Zen mist without the mountain armature, modal jazz without the trumpet or orchestra backdrop, just pure release, pure spirit. Her paintings waft into our consciousness...making us perceive line, form, and color all anew."

-Edward F. Fry

Art Historian and Critic