During my initial painting sessions exploring abstract movement and gestures, my canvases were painted full frame, fully informed by brush strokes and color pathways.  I see these pieces as emotive energetic paintings, with color explorations and movement as the core.  Continuing deeper with this new language of abstraction, during further passes and more completed oil on canvas, I opened the movement, incorporating both large sweeping gestures with calm conversations in color and responding more intuitively to its narrative.

My non-objective series in oil this year has become even more open, further developing these canvas passages between color and gestural dialogue.  I’ve been choosing saturated colors which unveil a pure statement of color that is compelling my gestural responses.  

It’s the most exciting work I’ve done to date, as an artist exploring both medium and process and learning and experiencing, all in the quest of furthering my ability to convey confidence in what I’m saying as an oil painter in the abstract.  I stand back a lot more these days, and read each work as it unfolds, really listening to what it wants from my brush and color choices.  Allowing the painting process to be simple or complex, the overall final view to excite with both statements of energy and peacefulness, final harmonies building as layers of oil on canvas that communicate the story of my process to each viewer.

9-12-2019