Roller Paintings 2023

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“Gallery 2023”
Oil/paper
11” x 8.5”
2023
 
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These works on paper represent a very intimate part of my output as an artist.   They are usually created when I don’t have a full studio at my disposal or at a period of time when I am simply too tired to create larger works.   It is note worthy that these are the very times when my purest artistic energies are apt to come out unimpeded by my predetermined intentions or goals.  So in that sense they are more pure and closer to my connection to that unknowable place where art comes from.  And that is what I mean by calling them more intimate.   
 
Clearly they reveal my deep love of landscape, atmosphere, the weather on a given day and the feeling of a season or the broader sense of climate.   I’m also clearly moved by people’s interaction with these things.  But most notable to me and perhaps less obvious to those that look at these, I’m excited by finding that dynamic stillness where my imagination is activated; a balance between abstraction and image depiction.
 

Is that a distant forest at dusk or just a smear of black paint?   When the balance is just so my imagination lights up and insights about how thought and sensation interact to form memory and aspiration.

These were all created in 2023.   As I look back on them, they also read like a diary for me. Certainly they are not as personal for others.  But I am pretty sure that doesn’t matter to you.  Perhaps they are personal to you in other ways.   Maybe one reminds you of a hike you took once, another maybe of favorite place or just the way the sky looks as fall slips into winter.  Where else do you see these things other than nature itself? And what other purpose could these have other than decorating one’s walls?   I don’t know, and I’m not even sure that decorating isn’t reason enough.  But I’m banking on them having a similar affect on you as they do on me … that they trigger your imagination and yield some insight about how you conceptualize things and how memory is forged and seared in through thoughtful reflection. 

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