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artist statement
I paint from the gut.
My art is about realizing my core language, brought forth from internally assimilating, then outwardly fashioning the emotional elements from the experiences, observations and backdrop of my life. What specifically prompts the start of a painting ultimately becomes inconsequential to me as a more visceral approach takes over. At that point, the more I leave deliberate thinking out of my painting process, the better the result. So I often rely on music to help nudge the guiding source away from my head and toward a place within. The form, the rhythm, the energy and the message are then unearthed by way of the intuitive progression.
Even in the case of the referential abstractions, there is still an impulse-driven exploration to break through the boundaries of and reinterpret the obvious, but the originating concept may nevertheless function to maintain some representational familiarity.
Collage is implemented to create a jumping off point, to establish an underlying element, or to alter the direction of a passage. As sections of the painting are worked, reworked, covered or torn away a dimensional quality takes shape that to me symbolizes how most places, events and entities in life are multi-layered.
I paint from the gut.
My art is about realizing my core language, brought forth from internally assimilating, then outwardly fashioning the emotional elements from the experiences, observations and backdrop of my life. What specifically prompts the start of a painting ultimately becomes inconsequential to me as a more visceral approach takes over. At that point, the more I leave deliberate thinking out of my painting process, the better the result. So I often rely on music to help nudge the guiding source away from my head and toward a place within. The form, the rhythm, the energy and the message are then unearthed by way of the intuitive progression.
Even in the case of the referential abstractions, there is still an impulse-driven exploration to break through the boundaries of and reinterpret the obvious, but the originating concept may nevertheless function to maintain some representational familiarity.
Collage is implemented to create a jumping off point, to establish an underlying element, or to alter the direction of a passage. As sections of the painting are worked, reworked, covered or torn away a dimensional quality takes shape that to me symbolizes how most places, events and entities in life are multi-layered.
Art gives form and harmony to what in life is chaos and discord. — Isadora Duncan
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