Chasing Light

It all started with my show in 2016. I spent months preparing, painting furiously, happily working away in my studio at night. Countless hours working on huge paintings, the biggest I have ever created and then seeing them hung in a gallery for my first solo show. I stood back and couldn’t believe I had made it, I had fulfilled a life long dream of having a solo show in a gallery.

What I took away after looking around that room was a small thought that became a big idea. Light. Where is the light? Where is the depth? The answer was that there wasn’t any. The paintings were flat, they were dynamic and full of life, and movement but there was no light source, no background and foreground, it was just design.

I decided that would be my next goal, to push my work to have a light source and create depth in an abstract work of art. Then I saw work by J.M. William Turner, and knew where I was headed. I had seen his paintings before but never really seen them. With fresh eyes I saw the depth and light I had been looking for and used his work as inspiration for my own work. Maybe one day I will feel I have met this goal, but for now, it’s all still just a work in progress.

Life should be a work in progress, if it’s not then what’s the point? If you are not constantly moving forward, toward something, then you stagnate, and lose momentum. For me, this isn’t an option, I have been told I am a seeker, and I fully accept that title.