Monday, 23 November 2009 07:33
This week's focus is on the While in Town series of paintings.  Cities
have always had an enormous hold on me.  Some of my most cherished
memories as a kid are of being in a downtown.  Amongst the tall
buildings, the sounds of automobiles and machines, and the busy
sidewalks.  Concrete and rusty steel everywhere.  The many windows
with the sky's reflection.  Textures of all kinds.  The grit.  I
remember being overwhelmed and excited by the energy at the same time.

A common thread in most of my work is to leave the meaning of a
painting for the viewer to determine.  I understand that a bridge or
building or group of buildings, etc., will have a different meaning to
each of us.

In these paintings, I try to capture a feeling of a lingering memory,
or a fleeting moment within an urban environment.

It's our emotional responses to these environments that interests me.