THE PROCESS
Fear Is All In Our Heads, 30" x 30", sold.
"I make a big mess and then I clean it up - and then I mess it up again."
Every painting starts the same way - with no preconceived idea of what it will look like. I start by painting strokes and layers of color, making all kinds of marks and flipping the paper, canvas or board until I have an abstract of color, mark making and texture. I continue layer after layer, until I get an intuitive nudge that it's time to start looking for an image or a gestural suggestion, and the painting grows from there... If, as the painting is coming into being, it doesn't resonate with me for some reason, I flip it again and continue the layering process, again and again until something grabs me...
Sometimes I just ask over and over, "Who's in there that wants to be seen?"
Every painting starts the same way - with no preconceived idea of what it will look like. I start by painting strokes and layers of color, making all kinds of marks and flipping the paper, canvas or board until I have an abstract of color, mark making and texture. I continue layer after layer, until I get an intuitive nudge that it's time to start looking for an image or a gestural suggestion, and the painting grows from there... If, as the painting is coming into being, it doesn't resonate with me for some reason, I flip it again and continue the layering process, again and again until something grabs me...
Sometimes I just ask over and over, "Who's in there that wants to be seen?"