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| Color. Color is everything. It is form, texture, and hue. It is light and dark. It is the emotional equivalent of all experience, locales, and events. It is the history of all previously used color. It is painting. |
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Works of art, paintings in particular, have always helped me to better understand my environment. My paintings result from what I see, what I think about what I see, and what I feel about what I see. Selected views and images from first-hand experience journey with me back to my studio. Each composition develops its own history as I work and rework it over time. Its inspiration progresses in dialogue with painting's idiom of color, form, and texture, and with art traditions both near and far until arriving at resolution. Painting allows me to focus on underlying essentials of places and moments, exploring and preserving that for contemplation. |
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| Process. I use traditional materials and methods: Belgian linen first stretched and sized with rabbitskin glue and then primed with a white oil ground. Once aged, I apply oilpaint using both brush and palette knife to develop my compositions. |
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| Images.
Formal qualities play an equal and independent role to recognizable attributes and emotive impact of images. Through exploring the underlying particulars of forms and structure of these images, I seek to reveal their expressive and associative qualities. |
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