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STATEMENT OF WORK
Through my decades-long dedication to perceptual oil painting, mainly focused on landscapes and still life, I developed a visual language that I now direct toward narrative figuration.
In 2016, Bob Dylan’s song A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall inspired a suite of twelve figurative paintings based on his lyrics. Quickly after came my Swimmers series, exploring falling and diving bodies which evolved into the swinging and soaring figures of my current Circus work.
Decades of perceptual painting were essential to being able to depict what I imagine or dream. I start by painting a single figure in space and then build the environment around them. In some ways my paintings evolve like a novel: characters appear, morph, disappear - light changes, buildings and trees move, leaving pentimenti that deepen the work.
Using the world of the circus as my current subject is an expression of my persistent optimism during a period of personal grief that aligned with an equally dominating sense of collective grief during the 2020 pandemic. As I paint figures flying through the air, people eating fire, ballerinas on stilts, surprising the viewer, defying gravity, I experience a sense of levity and magic.