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| "Crag Detail," watercolor and acrylic on paper, 9" x 12" |
Under the quarantine, unable to travel far
and wide, I've noticed some artists have worked harder to find
subject-matter that is closer to home.
One dude I admire, Brett
Amory, has done a series of paintings of just nooks and crannies in his
home. The Canadian painter Mary Pratt, a housebound mom for years, who
was born in the 1930s, painted what was available to her: her porch,
bags, the bed, jars of jelly.
My own art, at least in my own head, is about cajoling interesting visions out of non-exotic spaces. This has something to do with keeping it real and not being academic.
Before the quarantine, though, those spots were hyper-anthropic, meaning full of us flawed people and/or evidence of our work. Accessing those has become trickier.
Instead, in the last few months, I've been walking around the block a lot, hiking in nearby hills with the kids, and staring at the four walls of my garage-studio.
This latest is not my usual thing, but it is real. It's a detail from a weekend family hike. I could've gone for the big panorama, the full crag with flowers in bloom and greenery in the distance, but the detail seemed more relevant. More intimate.
My own art, at least in my own head, is about cajoling interesting visions out of non-exotic spaces. This has something to do with keeping it real and not being academic.
Before the quarantine, though, those spots were hyper-anthropic, meaning full of us flawed people and/or evidence of our work. Accessing those has become trickier.
Instead, in the last few months, I've been walking around the block a lot, hiking in nearby hills with the kids, and staring at the four walls of my garage-studio.
This latest is not my usual thing, but it is real. It's a detail from a weekend family hike. I could've gone for the big panorama, the full crag with flowers in bloom and greenery in the distance, but the detail seemed more relevant. More intimate.
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I do my best to use environmentally responsible pigments, varnishes, and other materials, all while upholding the strictest archival conventions and not losing anything in the way of color or vibrancy.
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