The technique I currently work in is Acrylic Mixed Media. I start a painting by adding abstract texture and color to the canvas. I leave the canvas to sit for a while and by observing I allow the image to reveal itself to me. I delight in the way the abstract texture and color evolves with each layer and how a feeling or image comes forth. At times the result is purely abstract and other times the most simple forms and pleasures in life come through. This process has been very freeing and has shown me a new way of expressing myself creatively. I feel less expectation and not pressured to create, the image moves freely through me and what comes out is pure and true.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe
I consider myself an expressionist painter. My paintings range from images that depict, that which is common, to the abstract expressions of the spirit. The process of creating provides a means with which I can express from within what is going on, in my life, the world in general, and that which I have little control.
The world today
doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
~Pablo Picasso
I have found the best thing I can do as an artist is to get out of the way and the let art come forth. I am grateful for being able to pick up the brush, after so many years away from it, to finally express myself, and I look forward to the surprise of seeing what lies ahead.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
~Vincent Van Gogh
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