““There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.””
Perspective
I make paintings and sculptures through a process of experimentation, revision and repetition. Ideas come from feelings connected to form and color I experience in nature and the domestic world. Two basic rules loosely guide this development, first I draw from intuition rather than photographs or from life, to give freedom for improvisation, then, I try to use my eye alone to guide and measure, to include human imperfection in the final product.
Understanding
The vocabulary of shapes used are basic and primitive, like children’s blocks, to be arranged and rearranged until they produce balance and visual tension. This structural form is like to the rhythm whereas color and texture are like the melody and the harmony of a full musical composition. The relationships of the formal elements, shape, color, texture have psychological meaning for me in that all relationships naturally have infinite possibilities even when they have the narrowest limitations. It is this idea of relationships and boundaries that I am exploring in the manner of abstract expressionism.
Results
I deliberately avoid making literal pictorial references to the physical world; however, I often find at the end of the work the figure still arrives uninvited but welcome. I am not bothered if the viewer finds an association to something familiar and real from their life because that seems like the process coming full circle.