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Abstract-Contemporary-Modernist and/or a blended combination of all…what is your style? What style do you paint in? How many times I have been asked this question. Why must there “be a style”? I get asked by Galleries, Art show promoters…people…it is like you MUST have a stated “style” to be an artist. Well…I always answer the same “I don’t have a singular painting style, as that would be a trap. Whatever I paint is my style. In this way I can speak volumes on a great many topics”. When you paint in an Automatism way, your style, use of brush stroke, way of handling a palette knife, your use of color varies not only work by work that you produce but moment by moment “within” a particular work.
A painting that may be heading to be a landscape traditional painting all of a sudden takes a turn and is now a contemporary abstraction that somewhat resembles a landscape but is now more about the color and textures and “feel”. Sometimes I am asked “What is art”? “What makes something a work of art”? It is a very complex question yet I think so remarkably simple an answer. To me “Art is whatever you see that creates an emotion or strikes a response within you”.
That is all any good artist hopes to achieve. My art is not about some plan or some social statement or political agenda…my art is about creating an emotional response within the viewer that may have a lasting effect. Hopefully you find one of my works that does this for you!
Semi-Abstract is a style of painting in which the subject remains recognizable although the forms are highly stylized in a manner derived from abstract art.
