ARTIST STATEMENT
I enjoy using my computer…..but I enjoy painting more.
There is nothing that replaces the squishy, spontaneous messy creativeness of paint on canvas. Layer upon layer, each locked into a sequence. Error and inspiration contributing to a final history of visual thought edited into something that can be called a painting. A fascination with the nuanced penumbral area between light and shadow, and the resulting glow, is a constant in my work. Fundamentally, I am concerned with traditional realism in a context of responding to observed scenes or to thoughts constructed within my imagination. Whatever the subject, I strive to make it seem visually real. I don't just paint how things look….I want a sense of how things work; how they were designed and constructed.
In my world, I make little distinction between what is called commercial art and fine art. To me orange crate label art has a place alongside the works of the old masters. Letter forms are intriguing and I often integrate them into paintings.
With my primitive tools in a modern age, I combine the past and present while I ponder the future.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I enjoy using my computer…..but I enjoy painting more.
There is nothing that replaces the squishy, spontaneous messy creativeness of paint on canvas. Layer upon layer, each locked into a sequence. Error and inspiration contributing to a final history of visual thought edited into something that can be called a painting. A fascination with the nuanced penumbral area between light and shadow, and the resulting glow, is a constant in my work. Fundamentally, I am concerned with traditional realism in a context of responding to observed scenes or to thoughts constructed within my imagination. Whatever the subject, I strive to make it seem visually real. I don't just paint how things look….I want a sense of how things work; how they were designed and constructed.
In my world, I make little distinction between what is called commercial art and fine art. To me orange crate label art has a place alongside the works of the old masters. Letter forms are intriguing and I often integrate them into paintings.
With my primitive tools in a modern age, I combine the past and present while I ponder the future.
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