FreeformPainting

While I can be quite analytical in describing my approach to painting, I actually feel very passionate about my present artistic development, a product of strong feelings and difficult choices about life and my understanding of the world. I believe my work is a visual depiction of that experience. There have been many new movements in the history of art but the longest established style in painting is the rectangular shape of the canvas. It is part of early Greek esthetics, which emphasize the “golden mean” and was solely used for portraiture by the aristocracy. But perhaps the next generation of artists will see something exciting about experimenting with the free-shape style. For example, landscape has traditionally been a frozen image, contained by a rectangle or square, as if one were looking through a window. To me, the landscape is more alive than that – more dynamic, more active. Coloration and shadows are constantly moving, nothing is static. Storms come and go and wind changes directions. There are real seasons where foliage changes. All of this makes you want to move “out of the edge” to create forms that reflect these constantly changing shapes and colors. In the creative world nothing stands still. It is also important to note that art always has something to say, by both the artist and the viewer. As I journey through this last phase of my life, being silent is as much of an impossibility as being still.