- "When you are in the studio painting,
- there are lots of people in there with
- you - your teachers, friends, painters
- from history, critics....and one by one,
- if you're really painting, they walk out.
- and if you're really painting, you walk
- out." Philip Guston
My abstract paintings are layers of acrylic paint sometimes with added elements of painted or textured paper. I approach each work like a conversation. There is a playful back and forth between the marks I put down on the board or paper and my response to them with more layers of paint or texture. It has been a process to learn to trust my intuition and balance it with the well instilled foundations of art: composition, balance, color, shape and value.
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