Description
Action painting is a very direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the direct effects of controlled splattering and dripping paint applications. Using these techniques spilling paint onto the canvas creating a movement and swirl the eye follows from one electric area to another. At times I may apply sand or grit to certain areas or utilized whatever is at hand to create a textured landscape and a feel of otherworldliness.
When I am creating an action painting I am inside the painting. I become the brush, the stick, the implement that “moves” the paint and causes it to behave how I will it to so as to create my inner vision. It happens “naturally” as there is no pre-drawn sketch on the canvas nor in my mind…there is only an automatic response to what I “see and feel” while creating. When it is good, I will be in a deep dripping sweat, when that is missing it is “not working” for me, and that canvas is destroyed. Only perhaps 1 out of each 10 will make it to where I am satisfied that some hidden, Electric, vision has been revealed. Each person viewing one of these works of art will take away from it something within themselves, something they saw and felt and that will be only theirs and no else can see or feel it the same way.
This is what I create in my action paintings… and that feeling you get when you view, is my greatest creation.
