My original work is an exploration of movement.
I experiment with square canvases and the effect that proportion forces upon the dynamics of movement within the composition.
Using source materials and sketches amassed over my career, I prepare several preliminary “movement” sketches in advance, exploring layouts and paths of movement within the design, while retaining the character of the subject.
Whether I paint a nude, a still life, a landscape or a cityscape, that preliminary design work helps to make a subconscious feeling of movement and rhythm, which can be instinctively recreated while I work out the other elements in the painting.
While not concerned with the depiction of actual objects in motion, I am more focused on moving the viewer’s eye within the picture plane. I use coincidental placement of colors and lines to guide the viewer’s attention in an easy journey around my work, and help them to focus on the area of interest that I choose.
The finished paintings gently buzz with life. The eye is moved, subtly but unavoidably to the place I want it to rest, and to the feeling I want to share.
The viewer is caught up in my reverie.
When I hold their attention, if only for a few minutes, we are one.
I experiment with square canvases and the effect that proportion forces upon the dynamics of movement within the composition.
Using source materials and sketches amassed over my career, I prepare several preliminary “movement” sketches in advance, exploring layouts and paths of movement within the design, while retaining the character of the subject.
Whether I paint a nude, a still life, a landscape or a cityscape, that preliminary design work helps to make a subconscious feeling of movement and rhythm, which can be instinctively recreated while I work out the other elements in the painting.
While not concerned with the depiction of actual objects in motion, I am more focused on moving the viewer’s eye within the picture plane. I use coincidental placement of colors and lines to guide the viewer’s attention in an easy journey around my work, and help them to focus on the area of interest that I choose.
The finished paintings gently buzz with life. The eye is moved, subtly but unavoidably to the place I want it to rest, and to the feeling I want to share.
The viewer is caught up in my reverie.
When I hold their attention, if only for a few minutes, we are one.