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| ARTIST STATEMENT
Art is the primary motive of my life. I love to see
how people describe their sense of the world and themselves in it, and
have never been able to resist describing and reflecting on my own
experience.
Early in my life as an artist I decided that I would
allow myself to make the work that inspired and energized me regardless
of other considerations. To do this I have worked two or three days a
week at a job, lived inexpensively and devoted my time to making art.
Over
the past thirty years I have built a broad range of skills, techniques
and visual languages that combine many methods and artistic references
to better express the depth and breadth of my experience of life. These
varied courses of painting have come together in the complex framing
methods I sometimes employ. I can combine a lot of different styles by
physically layering images in their frames. This allows me to juxtapose
images and create a narrative form of painting without being too
literal, and provides surprise and intrigue to the viewer while
requiring them to process aspects of the work internally - because of
the various ways that the paintings physically operate. The Internet
offers an excellent venue for the exploration of the interactive
character of these works.
TIMELINE
Born in 1959, Burien, Washington
Lived in Kent, Washington, 1959 –1972
Lived in Olympia, Washington 1972 – 1982
Started oil painting, 1975
Graduated North Thurston High school, 1977
Attended The Evergreen State College, 1978 – 1982
Lived in Seattle Washington, 1982 – 1992
Married to Esther Swenson, 1982
Lived in Langley, Washington on Whidbey Island, 1992- Present
Son Elijah born, 1994
Built home and moved in 1995
Finished studio and moved in, 1998
Built Woodshop, 2000
RESUME
Education: BA. Fine Arts, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 1978-82
Mediums: Oil paint, Egg tempera, Acrylic, Watercolor, Drawing, Digital painting and image manipulation using Photoshop, Printmaking, (lithography, intaglio, mono-print) Wood (carving and framing) Glass (flat and multi-layered)
Designed, and constructed a house, studio and woodshop, for my family and myself. I milled the lumber out of local trees, and split the shakes from fallen old growth cedar from our property for the roof. 1993-98
Major Private Commissions:
Altarpiece, oil on five panels, 14”x14” (frontispiece) 28”x14” (interior) 2001
Mural for South Whidbey Children’s Center, Langley WA, Acrylic, 12’x20’x10’ room two walls and ceiling 1997
Six commissions, four in oil, two in ink ranging in size from 18”x14” to 50’x15” 1996
Mural for Building Blocks Children’s Center, Seattle WA Acrylic, spanning two rooms walls and ceiling 1986
Two 30”x30”x4” constructions that utilized layered glass, glass tubing, wood, glass paint and etching 1986
Three 24”x48’ panels that incorporate glass, copper-foil, lead and layered glass, 1981
Source:
website of the artist
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