I am an ARTIST and DESIGNER.
As an ARTIST, I am as invested in the abstract qualities of the details, as on the overall piece.
By allowing my unconscious mind to guide the image, even while working within a framework, I become a visual force.
As a DESIGNER, I am using my skill to plan, arrange and take control of the formatted space... I can direct attention
and visually lead the the viewer to what I want them to see.
The two together are the creative tools all artists wield, whatever their medium. When creating a video,
the ability to make one image flow into another while carrying the story forward is the work of DESIGNER,
while the ARTIST creates the frames and characters that are the body of the work.
WOMAN WITH PEARLS
Oil paint on canvas 24"x 48"
While creating body contours by placing dots in linear arrangements, I found myself coloring and placing
the "beads" according to no logical plan.
The abstraction created by the randomness of
the strokes and shapes is basic to the piece.
By allowing my psych to determine a large part of the composition, the image moves closer to
surrealism than to a realistic portrait.
The subject was revealed to me near completion...
wounds incurred throughout a lifetime; the sort that
many women carry; invisible, but painful enough to
keep the victim silent for decades.
REAL
&
ABSTRACT
