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Artist Statement
I
do not object to interpretations of my work that emphasize
landscape or figurative elements, although such references are
not my primary objectives.
I recognize, however, that artists are influenced by
their environments.
I spend a lot of time on the coast, especially Edisto
Island. These works reflect the strong light, brilliant color
and twisted shapes of the live oaks and creeks.
The
work, as I see it, is driven by my constant need to refresh,
adjust, destroy, and then resurrect an essentially abstract
vocabulary of line, color, and shape.
I have become, as of recent, almost obsessed over the
characteristics of every mark, every edge, yet, I cannot
accept a movement in the composition that does not contain a
certain raw or edgy quality about it.
It is this that gives the work a furtive or shifty
quality that keeps me engaged.
This working and re-working process gives the paintings
their life, their own independent histories. Having described
my process as such, still, I am pleased that my work is large
enough to contain some of the severe beauty of nature and its
force, (as Jeffrey Day once described it) for we are, after
all, ingredients in this.
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