Kendal Titus Reynolds has a Bachelor of Art in Painting and Drawing from Brigham Young University. Inspired by Gustav Klimt from her time in Austria as well as her childhood hiking in the Smokey Mountains, Titus Reynolds works with intense colors and patterns that are abstractly drawn from what is found in dirt. As Kendal began exploring Utah's parks, using that National Park pass to it's fullest she became enthralled with the beautiful colors that occurred in nature, specifically rock formations. As she studied rocks, minerals, and crystals closer, studying with her husband as he got his masters in geology, she decided she wanted to paint the colors created by chemical composition and mineralization exactly as she saw them. Kendal's attention and studies of photorealism and the art nouveau movement pushed her depictions of crystal formations, creating what looked to be large abstract representations of colors and patterns, but were actually realistic renderings of naturally occurring structures. Titus Reynolds works with oil primarily, stretching and blending the rich colors of the earth together to form intriguing arrangements, as well as acrylic and watercolor. Titus Reynolds likes to work in layers as she builds up the geode or agate ornamentation, often using different techniques with mineral spirits and mediums to reveal coats and decorations above and below the vivid stains.
Pressure, time, liquid, lava, temperatures and more create structures beyond the colors in my pallet. I paint the hues and formations that seem to be abstractly created by my mind, but are actually photorealistic renderings of structures hidden and often unappreciated in the dirt. As you look through the layers of color and form it’s unknown if what you see is naturally tangible or impulsively imaginable.