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Cold day on the river watching coho on their redds
Got in a great inspiration hike the other day
This is the one I keep coming back to. It feels like a success.

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One of my newer paintings. 2x2ft
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I'm of a mind that the great leap forward which took place in the arts in the early twentieth century has had disastrous results since. Following the renaissance a conscious effort has been made by artists and their patrons to move the arts forward through an evolution of style and technique. This push can best be explained through the example of Picasso who in his youth rapidly developed a style so unique and new that the arts were fundamentally changed (not that his success was solely his own and much is owed to Braque). From the turn of the twentieth century on into the post war period of the 1940’s continual progress was made in technique, style, medium and theory. Despite this continual “progress” many of the fundamental aspects of art have been side-lined. There is no longer a focus on craft or visual integrity, instead concept and the artist statement rule. Without these fundamental qualities the direction of art has been centered purely on exercises of the mind and an overt connection to philosophy. While neither is inherently bad for art, there is often too much of a good thing. It is for this reason that I choose to re-center my own intent in painting and the arts on well crafted, legible images which evoke emotion and understanding without becoming heady or verbose.
Another drawing, same size and medium as the last two.
Graphite and Ink Wash on Watercolor Paper 18x26
Drawing is a good start

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History does not dictate the future, it informs it.
I do not strive to be an Avant-garde, nor am I reactive or conservative in my aims in art either. This is not to say I am ignorant of the art world or history, rather I am simply attempting to work through ideas and scenes of personal interest. The act of putting pigment to surface inarguably is tied and defined by the history of painting, a history wide and varied.
As any other artist has, I take all I can from the artists I revere. The liveliness Rembrandt was able to put into his drawings, showing not only his care for his models but also the deftness with which he worked. The approach of early twentieth century American artists such as Edward Hopper and Fairfield Porter, using flat washes of color and simplified form to homogenize the scene greatly informs my own sensibility. David Hockney’s work as well draws on similar simplification of form and flat painting however it is his productivity and large body of work that is of greatest impress.
I understand history well enough that I can draw from it without drowning under its weight or obsessing with my place in it. My goal as an artist is to maintain a dedicated practice of working and continue to progress my abilities. I seek to make art that reveals my own life and experiences, creating work as an exploration of individuality and to reveal the universality of human experience. I intend to avoid being trapped by trends of fashion, creating work which is both aesthetically sound and readily understandable. Appreciation of art should not require a college level career in art, literature and philosophy to understand, the visual elements of the image ought to be all that the viewer requires. One can best relate to images they know or are familiar to them and that idea is a factor in my choices of subject. Throughout my everyday life I record the people and places which attract my gaze with a camera or on paper. By using drawing as the first step of a painting I set out the fundamentals of an image, then adding layers of paint to create mood and fulfill the needs of the image. The images I create reveal their source or inspiration without sacrificing the material aspects of the paint; every layer exposing the works history. The scenes depicted become a compilation of my experiences; a lone oil rig on the plains, an abandoned building, the wide expanses passed in a life in transit. My aspirations are not so lofty as to place myself among the multi-millionaire artists of my time. I seek only to capture what is important to me because it is what I know and what I desire.