My Artist's Statement
Written Picture Project: Quick Overview.
The "Written Picture" project is a series paintings focused on abstraction and an effort to push visual language. The series began with my idea to paint a book, capturing the essence of ancient texts in an abstract and contemporary manner. I paint dashes moving from left to right, mimicking text. The overall feeling of these paintings is of a busy space that somehow still remains quiet and ordered. I mean for them to transformational and spiritual, while remaining mysteriously ambivalent. You must come to them without judgement or preconceptions and experience them as visual phenomena. Think of them as symphonies for the eye. Mostly, they have been done in watercolor, but recently I have begun creating some larger pieces using acrylic paints.
The "Written Picture" project is a series paintings focused on abstraction and an effort to push visual language. The series began with my idea to paint a book, capturing the essence of ancient texts in an abstract and contemporary manner. I paint dashes moving from left to right, mimicking text. The overall feeling of these paintings is of a busy space that somehow still remains quiet and ordered. I mean for them to transformational and spiritual, while remaining mysteriously ambivalent. You must come to them without judgement or preconceptions and experience them as visual phenomena. Think of them as symphonies for the eye. Mostly, they have been done in watercolor, but recently I have begun creating some larger pieces using acrylic paints.