Gray Cloud

Gouache on Paper March 31st 2009

New Gouaches

These new gouache paintings are partly inspired by early water colors of Georges Rouault. His "Party at the Waterside" 1906, invokes a feeling of an event with something particular happening, without referring to anything too literal.

I aim for these paintings to be more of a drama which takes place in this setting than to be thought of as a landscape. It doesn't necessarily have to be outdoors, it just seems to end up that way.

Presenting

The exact point where the painting is no longer depicting but presenting, is never the same.
The stupidist idea or flippant gesture just may make it the hallmark for the picture.

I begin to notice that the coherency of the painting comes as I negate the parts I truly loved.

Illumination

The same drawing keeps on producing multiple variations, yet I think the illumination of the scene can achieve the same effect while using completely different means. One day, one night, I don't know how much of a difference it makes, as it opens the same door.

Pantheism

With Pantheism, Nature does have a larger order. For the artist this must be suggested in some way. However, it must be integrated with the entire structure of the painting. Not merely depicted.

This form was used in literature of the ancients. Intervention of the Gods were used as a device to show some kind of order to the mortal world where they had no explanation. Having this higher structure operating behind the scenes broadens the mental picture to operate on many levels.