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and inventing when there are no answers to be found. The painter should be like the poet who uses familiar words to compose new or novel ways of thinking without believing it is necessary to create an entirely new language. The odd new word is enough. My personal efforts in art are just a search for a few words new to the vocabulary, to add a bit of spice to the already rich pictorial language of the art I have studied and travelled to see. Consequently, my paintings are in a language where colour, form and pattern are the words, the carefully placed central figure is the grammatical structure.
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When people ask me - when you paint what do you paint? My answer is - I do stylized figurative work that is centered in a carefully worked out composition which includes an abstract, patterned background. The painting tells a poetic story and involves the viewer philosophically and emotionally. I use the hidden geometry of the Golden Section to work out my compositions. I believe the eyes are the windows of the soul, consequently my figures often have life-like eyes. All other attempts at realism are sacrificed for the emotional impact a stylized figure offers. My paintings have a controlled harmony that is easy to live with and definitely qualify as Fine Art in the truest sense.
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Let me briefly share with you some of the thoughts that I had in coming to the above answer. Though my work is figurative, I also want to create a profusion of eye excitement in the texture, shapes and forms of a fanciful background. The figures I paint are stylized but still tied to reality. The viewer recognizes them as living forms, yet is not restricted to the game of seeing how true the naturalistic representation is. Thus the viewer is free to feel the emotion of the activity that is presented in an art language that is more spiritual than naturalistic. You know it is human because the central figure is recognizable as such. The distortion and stylized portrayal of the figure in an abstract background is simply an artistic dialect. The story is still understandable yet has the appeal of being exotically foreign. Background patterns are arranged to give stability to the central figure or figures, who can then become a theme object in a subtle statement about life. The beauty of an object is found in its boundaries. Space takes its beauty from being boundless like a star-filled sky.
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