"Art is the choreographer of space" ... Barnett Newman
As an expressive abstract artist I paint in response to 'my reality.' Our personal reality is always fluctuating, always changing, always fluid. My goal as I step up to the canvas is to translate the present moment into an image that describes 'the moment in time.'
Art Is born....
There is a painting that wants to be 'born' and come into existence. My stroke on the canvas is intuitive and leads me on to that destination. I want to arrive at a truth for me. I have no preconceived plan where I am going or how long it will take me until I arrive at total satisfaction. Visual satisfaction is my truth. The piece of art is complete and the image is born.
My work in order to feel complete must have movement, mystery and clarity. I want the final work to be strong and expressive. I want someone to stop, stay, wander and then cross the field of the painting again. I want the viewer to derive a gut feeling about the work. It matters not if they like it but I just want them to have a gut reaction.
Sometimes the painting is achieved with little history and the stroke laid down is true, pure and authentic. Yet at other times there are many lives it will go through before it has reached the ultimate truth. Layers are built, sabotaged and rebuilt. I am always looking for strokes and lines that are solid, valuable and not contrived. Sometimes a work of art looks simple. Simple is difficult to execute. My goal is a strong, crisp, and powerful images that want to make you linger.
Art Is born....
There is a painting that wants to be 'born' and come into existence. My stroke on the canvas is intuitive and leads me on to that destination. I want to arrive at a truth for me. I have no preconceived plan where I am going or how long it will take me until I arrive at total satisfaction. Visual satisfaction is my truth. The piece of art is complete and the image is born.
My work in order to feel complete must have movement, mystery and clarity. I want the final work to be strong and expressive. I want someone to stop, stay, wander and then cross the field of the painting again. I want the viewer to derive a gut feeling about the work. It matters not if they like it but I just want them to have a gut reaction.
Sometimes the painting is achieved with little history and the stroke laid down is true, pure and authentic. Yet at other times there are many lives it will go through before it has reached the ultimate truth. Layers are built, sabotaged and rebuilt. I am always looking for strokes and lines that are solid, valuable and not contrived. Sometimes a work of art looks simple. Simple is difficult to execute. My goal is a strong, crisp, and powerful images that want to make you linger.
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Maya Angelo