Painting Fiction vs Painting Non-fiction
A short reflection on the boundary between realism and invention in painting—and how works like The Weight of Memories move between observation and imagination.
The Artist as Mad Dervish
A reflection on painting as a process of chaos, discovery, and restraint—where the artist begins in wild motion and gradually learns to listen to what the canvas is trying to become.
Facing the Blank Canvas
For an artist, there’s nothing as daunting yet exciting as facing a blank canvas. The possibilities are infinite; and so are the risks. My approach is to simply make some brush strokes or marks or splashes of paint and see what that triggers. I try to keep the process an in-the-moment improv dance between eye, […]