Painting has always been part of my life going back to my childhood growing up in an artistic family who was involved in music & painting. I express my emotion and my need for total expressive freedom for more than 20 years though my paintings.
I start with a painting idea an impulse, usually derived from my own world. Though sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my unconscious, the way a dream might be. Sometimes we are able to see figures which I’m not aware of. I choose colours of intense black, blue, reds, etc.
The chemistry of pigments is interesting, like bone black is made from charred bones of horns. Sometimes I wonder laying in a black strip, will it absorb the light, will it absorb deeper, darker and darker before me. Sometimes I wonder laying in a black strip, will it absorb the light, will it absorb deeper, darker and darker before me.
Only love for painting in this instance is able to cover the fearful void. A fresh white canvas is a void as is the poets sheet of blank white paper.
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