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Every time I finish a painting, I say to myself that it is a break through. That feeling keeps me going, painting and testing my limit. In the process, theories are lost and found along with new discoveries about colors, values, lines, shapes and their relationship to one another. For me as an artist, a life's lesson is contained in a good painting; the Ying and Yang of all things.
I like to paint abstract because it is challenging, breaking the world into pieces and putting it back together; simplifying or redefining it in the process. The world is actually very abstract; otherwise, how could there be so many different realities to so many of us?
For abstract work, I look for space occupied by lines and planes that are part of, but most often, obscured, in our visual world, and give them another plane to exist in colors and relationship. The work most often transforms itself during the process, bring along anxiety and pleasant surprises.
As I spend more time working on abstracts these days, I continue painting landscapes and still life to strengthen the fundamentals a fine artist needs to have, and whose purpose, in my view, is to present a different world view... esthetically and thoughtfully, possibly without words.
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