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At present my concentration is usually a very abstract colour-field approach. I am very influenced by what I see every day; shapes, sky, trees, lizards, that women in the red dress, the metallic paint shimmering on the 18-wheeler cab as it roars by on the interstate, and then all these fleeting images are transmitted in my mind's eye to a two-dimensional vision that will lie on the surface of the canvas. That is not to say that this image will appear immediately. It must be layered, built up, and searched for; it appears gradually, almost like some imaginary creature slowly rising to the surface of a shimmering pond of colour!
These images seem to be floating around in my head all the time, not necessarily always in a conscious way, but just under the surface while I am dealing with everyday life. Then out of the blue (or red or green) in the middle of the grocery store aisle, I begin to imagine the beginning of a painting. Then it is time to start laying on those levels of colour, thin washes and glazes, thigh layers, metallic foils, whatever it takes to reach that indefinable point when my painting resonates with me. From that point on it is entirely up to you the viewer to find what enchants that connection between what you see with your eyes and what you see with your mind. |
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