It is a great honour to be participating as Feature Artist at the Jasper Art Gallery for the month of July 2019. If you are in the vicinity be sure to drop by for a look at my three acrylic/mixed-media studio abstractions. You may find them looking back at you!
JAG’s Featured Artist series give all members of the Jasper Artists Guild the opportunity to display a collective body of art for a period of one month. I invite you to follow their Facebook page to stay up to date on Featured Artist, exhibits and events. www.facebook.com/JasperArtistsGuild/
Studio Abstractions / Artist Statement
These three paintings were created during the winter of 2018-19 and are the continuation of an ongoing search that has brought me from abstraction to figuration, landscape and back again.
I function on an intuitive basis when I produce these, starting with the application of transparent washes and adding successively opaque paint and collage layers as the painting develops. Mistakes occur frequently however I strive to accept them as a stimulus for further investigation.
Each canvas is a means of solving complex, compositional problems imposed by the creative thrust when I begin each one.
As I add narrative collage elements, these works take on a quality of “humanized abstraction” that I find at once compelling and therapeutic.