Toni Swarthout

Toni Swarthout has worked for decades as a contemporary abstract painter. She paints in a series format, demonstrating her ever-evolving and distinctive style. Her work consists of strong colors and lines that are born out of, as the artist calls it, chaos, followed with order. The works convey the depth and balance that can be achieved in the midst of chaos. She approaches life in much the same way, always finding the meaning and depth in even the most unfamiliar moments. Her technical approach moves and changes in each new series, yet there is always her familiar, distinctive tone within each new piece. Expectations based on work itself are her most useful tools. In other words, anything she needs to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. And, anything that she loves is in the last contact with what she loves. Swarthout's inspiration is derived from her studies of the great abstract painters, such as Rothko, Twombly, Mitchell, and Richter, to name a few.