Artist Statement
“For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, and news from a country we have never visited.”
I’ve gravitated to painting abstract landscapes, using mostly acrylics because of their incredible versatility. It doesn’t hurt that acrylics make for a much easier clean-up. But I’ve recently fallen in love with the magical medium of oil and cold wax.
Poetry is powerful because of its evocative nature. Prose names, explains, tells. Poetry, on the other hand, suggests. When I work on a piece, I hope to hint at a reality that is sensed but rarely glimpsed—an evanescent beauty just beyond our grasp. I call it beauty because, like beauty, it arouses longing and hope.
Typically, I use a zillion layers of paint and mediums. Often, I rub off most of every color I put on the canvas, hoping to suggest the beauty beyond. Sometimes, piling on layers of thick paint, my goal remains the same: to signal a compelling world beneath, beyond, and above.
“When we make, we invoke the abundance of God’s world into the reality of scarcity all about us.”
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