For Isabelle Beuttell Dayton, painting is an act of faith in the visual world. Painting affirms the primacy and splendor of the here and now.
Light bathes the world with sensual and psychological immediacy.
Isabelle paints both single figures and parents with children relating to each other and to the natural world. Rather than family portraits, these are meditations upon the tender, human mystery of relationships. While highly individual, the figures are distinguishable by gesture and attitude, rather than facial expression. The natural interaction of her figures creates small, telling dramas of ordinary life. Isabelle deploys her players in timeless and evocative settings, the seashore and the garden.