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Artist Statement
My art reflects an expressive emotional response
to my past, present and a projection of the future. As a creator
of art, I apply the colored pigment onto the surface out of a
necessity to transfer an internal emotion into an external form.
Color is my language. It speaks to me. I lay it down in a dance
with the surface and watch it take shape and form in its own time.
The objective is to use color as an agent to define formation,
shape and line as an expression of today, yesterday and the anticipated
tomorrow.
I am merely a conduit for the pigment and unable
to walk away from its urgency and immediacy requiring my complete
attention. It is a dance between me and the surface hearing only
its music which compels me to create what never existed before.
As I work, I see connections, images, signs and formations as
the pigments moves, drips, bubbles, flows and travels along the
confines of the space. I often manipulate the magic by rotating
the canvas or using instruments to create an effect. The work
becomes a manifestation of my spiritual vibration used as an expression
of my compelling artistic need to communicate and a repository
for my talent.
My work is reliant upon the historical context and
techniques of abstraction as a backdrop for expansion. Jackson
Pollock and the abstract expressionist movement laid a foundation
for its development. I accept my artistic inheritance and create
work within the genres of abstract expressionism, action painting
and Colour Field. Like Pollock, I prefer the floor to the easel,
although I use both. I begin with an underlining painting then
add layers of brush strokes using spoons, paint stirrers, turkey
basters, forks, dripping, throwing and swirling using a gloved
hand; never relinquishing control. I mix color on and off the
surface, use spatial ambiguity, gestural strokes and madness to
push my work to new boundaries.
The first level of imagery is never acceptable,
so I continue to add numerous tiers until I reach satisfaction.
It reflects an effort to breathe new life into an old genre of
painting which must compete with the contemporary movements of
today. My work is a transmittal of color, form and density rendering
new discoveries with each viewing.
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