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My painting is not “realistic” in the sense that you can recognize where I put my easel. I'm not painting picture postcards. I seek to express something of the spirit of a place.
Making a painting is like bringing a child into the world. A painting has its own personality and its development is determined both by my vision and by the painting itself. I seek to accept rather than control this offspring and help the developing painting find its own way and realize its own potential. I feel that the demands of consistency (from galleries and critics) should not compel a new painting to fall into line. Each painting is an individual. One may emphasize color, another rhythm and a third may be monumental.
Mike
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Aren't the any painters of seascapes out there?
( or lovers thereof.)
More views of mine:
Color is important to me. When I look at a scene I compose the colors in my mind deciding in a creative way which pigments to use. From time to time I will match a color to something in the scene but more often I match colors to those already on the canvas. Every painting has its own palette matched to the way I feel about the subject. In a similar way the composition of the painting evolves using what's in front of me as a source of inspiration.
Mike