Toni Doilney Textured Landscapes

As shapes collide and coil, twisting together in a spasm of color and form, you can almost start to see identifiable objects come together from behind the paint in Toni Doilney’s abstract paintings. And then, just as everything starts to come together, it shifts away, like a cloud tugged apart by a high-altitude gust.

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“People tend to see a lot of things in my work, whether it’s trees or people or houses. Finding things that aren’t in my paintings seems to be part of the appeal of my work,” Doilney says from her Arizona studio. “Of course I do paint some things, like plants, houses, gardens or mountains, but I like to leave it all just a little ambiguous. It’s part of a natural process for me. I don’t want anything to be too defined or pretty.”