GALLERY OF ORIGINALS, PRINTS, AND OTHER UNIQUE ITEMS

Hello and Welcome.
I appreciate your taking interest in my work and spending time looking at the variety of art I have to offer. These paintings (and prints) are a culmination over nearly thirty years with many successes and failures. Without the failures however, I would not have grown and improved as a painter. Therefore, I hold them in the same regard as any successful work. Even today, I continue to fail. If I didn’t, if I “knew it all” I would become disinterested and do something else.

The albums (or gallery groupings) will reveal the many places I have visited and found inspiration to set paint to canvas or paper. It may not be so much the place or time that peaks my interest, but more the arrangement of shapes and the natural placement. In as much as an artist will “set up” a still life to work from based on the objects, shapes, colors and lighting, the observations of a messy room or studio can also bring forth an “ah hah” moment. I may see these shapes from one position and not be intrigued. Change my view, and there’s a painting staring back at me.

When I start to “paint with my eyes”, (seeing the image being painted) I become entranced. This preliminary examination can solve visual and design problems. The next phase will be to photograph and or sketch through paint or pencil. Combined with the recounting of painting with my eyes and actual graphical symbolism, I find the path to my finished work.

It is said, “It matters not how the painting was created, but more the result.” I try to remember this whenever I’m working to allow myself to follow a more free approach. The main rule of painting is “there are no rules”.

Enjoy.
Paul