"Mapping Out Bliss" 40" x 48" work on canvas
"I think of my paintings as un-still lives, at once frozen and in motion. I focus on the concept of capturing a moment of thought, purely through my visual language. I strive to capture the fleeting memories and images that travel rapidly through the mind and represent these thoughts in the layers of color, texture and repeating marks within the work. My language is an abstract collection of marks, textures and color, repeating shapes and forms, with which I seek to find a balance of chaos and harmony. Often these marks will reflect architectural landscapes, roads, maps, repeated patterns, or colors as if seen from above or as recalled from within, a sort of visual record book of the mind."
Robert Rauschenberg - for his continual work with collage and paint
Richard Diebenkorn - for his use of space and line structures
Mark Rothko - for his use of color
Pablo Picasso - for everything he created
VanGogh for living, color, line, passion, energy, emotion
Jackson Pollack - for his desperate joy
Henri Matisse for his spirit and color
Amedeo Modigliani - his odd quirky portraits
"Ordinary Spectacle" 36" x 48" work on canvas
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec his oils and lithographs
Alberto Giacometti - his sculptures of walkers
Paul Klee for his whimsy and composition
Tony Magar - the space paintings for his depth of color, texture and energy
Sharon Booma - love her use of color & balance
Glen Ossiander - for his freedom, emotion & joy in the work
Paul Baumer - especially the cityscapes for his whimsy and color
Doug Trump - for his incorporation of line, color and composition
"Pieces of Imagination" 30" x 30" work on canvas
