Three years ago I completely (and radically) changed my style, breaking up my paintings into shapes, like puzzle pieces that I constructed into compositions. This will be the 3rd annual show featuring the continuation of this direction. I was already segueing into more abstraction from my representational work. It was essentially a BC/AD moment for me. But, though my style has changed, I still try to reach deep in how I express the visual world around me. What I see affects me. The challenge is to paint what I see that is out of the ordinary but exciting and dynamic.
In my years as a painter I’ve been influenced by many of the great colorists, especially Monet and Inness. I feel this show explores color relationships more than any in the past. These latest pieces are not only about arrangement of shape but how colors work next to each other and lots of them. How far can I push the envelope of “normal” towards something very different? Art, for me, is exciting when it pushes the envelop but still engages the heart. The soul after all yearns for what is not necessarily rational but speaks to it in an entirely new way.
“Creativity is, foremost, being in the world soulfully, for the only thing we truly make, whether in the arts, in culture, or at home, is soul.” Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul