I am trained as an architect but after seven years I became frustrated and discouraged with the limitations imposed by clients, budgets and bosses. During a moment of unemployment I started to paint because I was bored, had materials and needed Christmas presents for my family.
Not long into the process I found that I loved the act of painting. I decided to paint for the sole purpose of supplying my house with paintings that I liked. I had always liked abstract art and knew from early on that my most moving and memorable [
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I am trained as an architect but after seven years I became frustrated and discouraged with the limitations imposed by clients, budgets and bosses. During a moment of unemployment I started to paint because I was bored, had materials and needed Christmas presents for my family.
Not long into the process I found that I loved the act of painting. I decided to paint for the sole purpose of supplying my house with paintings that I liked. I had always liked abstract art and knew from early on that my most moving and memorable art experiences almost always involved abstract art. I researched many different abstract artists concentrating on Klee, Kandinsky, Pollack and Rauschenberg. I went to museums and generally immersed myself in reading about and staring at abstract art.
At the same time that I was developing myself as an artist I was also deep in my search for meaning, order and purpose in life. The two started to take on similarities that later developed as a language for my painting. In my world, the free flowing formations represent the spiritual aspect of our existence, the geometric structures are the structures, mores, and constraints that society imposes on that spirit, the circle represents the self. However, sometimes my paintings are simply about me having fun experimenting with techniques.
I am a process painter, that is, I often do not have a specific idea of an end product, but I know the process that I will use to achieve my objective. I may have a vague idea of form and structure but more to the point I know the process I will use to get where I am going. All of my processes are self taught over the last 18 years. In that time I have gone through a lot of different processes and many of them have compounded and morphed into present day techniques. Presently while still painting on flat surfaces, my main focus lately has been with texture and color chords on 3-d plywood structures. My favorite paintings lately are those that are full of layered colors and textured to the maximum. I want to get lost in them.
I have never really tried to sell my work. It has always been for me and nobody else. If someone liked a painting I would sell or give it to them, but I have never pushed my art. However, the realities of space (I have run out of room many times) have made me realize that I should at least try to sell my art. I do not have a market value because I have never been on the market, so the price is solely based on the question I ask myself "How much money do I need in my pocket so that I do not feel bad about that painting not being in my house?" Sometimes it is a lot, sometimes it is not. The prices represent my personal taste in my own art, after all it is all for me.
I apologize for the quality of pictures;I am admittedly going into this with little effort (I love painting, I hate marketing my art). If you like something, contact me and I will get better or more detailed pictures. Unfortunately, pictures do not convey the texture and layering of color that you can see in person, if necessary I will always extend an invitation to view my paintings. [
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