FIGURES…..A STUDY IN "US"

Figures interest me…the challenge…complexity… the differences…personality…Somewhere in a place, maybe a city where figurative emotions move in and out of their environment. They become part of all and all of one.

Sometimes in and out of focus and moving through indistinguishable places. Similar to ghosts moving from one dimension to another. We become part of.

Notice people in a large city walking through the streets and you will see humans lost in a sea of structure. Do you see the buildings with a flutter of movement or do you see humans among the texture of their environment?

I see people becoming shapes moving in and out of other shapes and color both warm and cool creating emotion in their painted environment.

Figures…It is…US.

My work has always been “reality based abstraction”. Most of my work relates to the figure, but a trip to New York inspired me to move into another direction.

My concept was to create something from this environment yet not produce a group of paintings that represent a particular location in the city.

The market place series are representative of many locations and some paintings included here also are scenes from other locations.

One particular market place was chosen and painting interpretations of this general scene were created using non traditional choices of light, color, and time of day to produce an endless amount of different moods, sometimes moving toward a surrealistic feeling. Each scene was painted on canvas mounted on board. My fascination with the artist Wolf Kahn has inspired me to move colors in a direction not traditional with most scenic painters.