I love reading someones Artist Statement.
Everyone I've ever lived with and loved seems to want to edit, critique, condense or in general control the damn thing as they think their perception of me is authentic.
Authentic. I remember reading multiple artists statements one day and seeing a common thread through all of them. All highly successful artists specifically saying they were searching for their AUTHENTIC self in their Art.
None of them had much warmth. They all felt cold and sterile.
Condensed into this glob of words spat from a highly educated curator.
All well and good. Yes, I get a bit snarky about it.
I've dealt with artist for over 40 years.
They all need a manager or keeper, yes I said it.
Here's my go at trying to describe my genuine self.
I have always been an artist. It just took me about thirty years to get to that point where I could say it. I've always yearned for an "instruction book" on how to do it.
Something so natural yet scary and illusive.
Experience working with Artists in my career in the Art Gallery and Picture Framing world
was good training for my own Art Career.
It does not come easy. That much I know.
I work in painting, mixed media, collage and photography.
It can be a combination of all or just one.
MY Paintings start with broad washes of color usually dividing the canvas into a landscape.
From there.....
It can take any serendipitous turn.
Chaos and order begin to compete.