Respiro en Relationship:

“Warner Varno has developed presencing (Arawana Hayashi and SPT: Social Presencing Theatre) through the visual arts, a mark-making process that is a mindfulness and artmaking practice creating space for quiet contemplation, creative risk-taking, and deep listening. She feels that it can also be a strategy to attend to feelings of “overwhelm” (Brene Brown, Atlas of the Heart) to address change and challenge in our post-pandemic experience, lending itself to improved state of mental, emotional, physical health, and relational health.  It is also a physical and spiritual practice toward building compassion and empathy for ourselves and the living world, toward progressive change. By combining mindfulness and artmaking, Warner has created a dynamic and responsive art practice with no road map that helps address the myriad of human emotions in response to this modern life and cultivates truth-telling as a form of self-expression through the mark-making process and the physical-spiritual practice of presencing in connection to the living world.” Artist Statement: Artisan Gallery, Broome County Arts Council.

Heavenly Bodies, Lungs, and Be Where Your Hands Are series:

Heavenly Bodies and Lungds series; developing an intuitive, responsive painting practice to the socio-cultural climate and grappling with a global pandemic- exploring grief/love, pain, and loss on a local, national, and global scale.

Mark-making and Plein Air painting; engaging with the Natural World during COVID-19. Be Where Your Hands Are, Liberian Pepperwood-Flower Foot, The Crow, and the Pitcher/Orangerie series acknowledge the good in our lived experience, within our families, our communities, and the living world, amidst the puzzle and pressures of modern life.