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A black line drawn on white paper reveals
a relationship of sky to earth, of time to thought and idea to image.
My search begins in this way for an essence of place. When the line
encounters the light and defines the landscape my painting takes
on its own life.
In this benign landscape, a stage is drawn for the unfolding of
the complexity of nature and human drama. This stage offers to me
a solitude in which to communicate forms on paper and within myself.
The convergence of photography, drawing and painting becomes my
dialog. A language of color, a matrix of textures; teaches me harmony,
rhythm, boldness, strength, intuition, action and restraint.
The overlays of waterclor, through time, lend depth and dimension
to ideas. At times chaos controls, at times the sublime. Then the
unexpected occurs and imagination is invited, "to harmonize the
whole is the task of art," Kandinsky wrote in CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL
IN ART.
Painting and drawing had always been a part of my life growing up
in Wisconsin. Four years of study in illustration and advertising
at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles for a Bachelor of
Arts led to a working trip to Japan via McCann Erickson-Hakuhodo
and Koedi Studio. Once back in Santa Barbara I designed 30 large
format photography books for David Muench Photography Inc. Assignments
led to backpacking adventures each year in to the landscape of mountains,
deserts, forests and oceans. The pounding of waves onto volcanic
shores, the sunstar cascading avalanches off Assiniboine, an anthropomorphic
figure emerging from an ancient horizon, winds gusting at sunrise
and transition moods at sunset, all become part of my watercolor
paintings.
I do hope to communicate the contradiction of chaos and beauty by
combining synergistic energy and numinous elements in my paintings.
To have the originals photographed, then scanned and printed as
Giclee prints at Muench Photography, offers a challenge in mastery
of the digital imaging techniques now available with archival inks
and papers.
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