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My paintings are expressionistic works of acrylics
and other mediums on canvas. My figurative work explores the physical
human form and the soulful connection of the human condition. By mixing
gel mediums and modeling paste to alter the paint’s texture,
luminosity, and consistency, the application of the paint mixture
brings an abstracted fleshiness to the work. I concern myself primarily
with the representation of the paint more than the subject and typically
load the canvas with the paint/gel mixture without regard to the final
composition. This allows me to be spontaneous and reactive to every
stroke and layer of paint leading me to a final palette of color,
value, and temperature of the canvas. Pulling from an inventory of
painted canvases, I then match a canvas with the specific subject
by searching for abstracted reveals of form in the patterns, values,
and movement of the painted canvas. Only then do I begin to create
a final composition.
The topography of my work, created with palette knives and other tools,
is random and arbitrary. The fields of color and texture seem to be
disconnected in detail and simultaneously conjoined in overall composition.
The depressions and elevations of the paint mixture obscure and abstract
the realisms of the human form, lending an expressive voice to the
work.
For me, the visual journey around a canvas should be exciting, surprising,
and emotional; cluing the viewer to not only an expression of the
subject, but also an articulation of the painter and the creation
of the work.
I particularly enjoy watching people view my work from a distance
and then approach the canvas to uncover the details, all the while
restraining themselves from touching the texture of the canvas. If
my work causes you to stop for a moment to see with your mind and
perhaps urges you to make order of what you are viewing then I have
achieved my aim.
