Abstract-Expressionist Painting Philosophy

Admittedly my art goes off in way too many directions at once. People who know art keep telling me that I need to stick to one thing. Well, to some degree I do … at least, seasonally.
In the rainy winter and spring I did a lot of expressionist paintings, often with a death theme. The […]

Every human endeavor has its aficionados, and its purists. It has its own Taliban, too, who will punish you if you fail to follow in the line of orthodoxy. In painting, one orthodox view is that you must do ONE thing and one thing only, and to do otherwise will incur penalties.
This is one of […]

We’ve all heard the criticisms: “People paint abstracts because they can’t draw,” and “My four year old could have done that.” I even heard the art-nazi host of Oregon Art Beat, K C Cowan, make the former statement and she should know better than this! Of course, the fact that she hosts a show about […]