What do we really see individually ?
How do we respond –emotionally- to a collective, objective understanding ?

Beauty in the eye of the beholder is such a strenuous concept to deliver factitiously to. I keep it simple by speaking from directly within my heart. Where everything is beautiful, I cannot fail. Only by allowing the impulsive, the emotional, the real- to be as an experience desired, can I discover what we all actually see. Often we fail to acknowledge on a personal, subjective level the reality of our environment. This artwork is about the journey of experiences, some fleeting, some lasting, some effusive, while other impressions may remain quite vague. It is this experiential journey I wish to unfold for my audience.

My artwork is the most authentic form available in communicating to the world around me. My exploration of various subject matters (Animals, Nature, abstract compositions) as a visual medium offers me the opportunity to travel within my stimulating, inner world. The journey of realization is intrinsically emotional, authentic, a purely intellectual response to the fabric of life. My technique of expression is emotionally direct. The colors flow, lines delineate, form and shapes blossom beyond the height and breadth of the paper. In bringing this tangible to paper gives my journey authentication. To the viewer, perhaps an emotional understanding beyond color, shape and stroke evolves. One without the other would either be impossible, or quite meaningless. My audience sees through me what I am capable of offering. It is a pure, direct, sensuous and genuine communication.

Stimulus and response are two of my favorite playmates. Together we are inspired to step into, and immerse ourselves into that creative trapeze between heaven and earth. I swing, release and fly, hoping to find a new grip at the end of my arc. Sometimes scary, always exciting, we bond in what is mutable. Between the real and the imagined my art frolics, and the viewer is swept up. This process of personal observation is my life. As defined as each stroke of my brush, each crayon line or charcoal smudge, here is a liberation of control. Freedom and the creative expression are entwined forces. Nature wants to be experienced, engaged and liberated, not necessarily just defined.

This paper at first becomes a transient process, and I cannot -as originator- explain exactly where I am being taken as I engage in this broad, purely communicative effort. We simply arrive at different perspectives. From where we started it is now different. The theme of all my paintings is exuberance, either through the portraiture of majestic creatures, or the simple caricature of a landscape. Together we delve into light, shape and the innermost interactive venues.

The process of my experiences brought to paper is my perception of life. This refers to a constant theme, realized within all of my art. The exploration of a moment, expanded outward to touch my audience by what we feel (in a different manner of perception), -is this the authentic reality? I don’t know, but it is so much fun getting there! What each of us sees is beautifully different, intrinsically personal, and assuredly emotional. This has to be revealed beyond what the eye carries inward. A true place for the soul varies within each of us. If my viewer walks away instilled with a fresh, invigorated and surprise feeling of enjoyment, then these pigments I have joined on this paper, then this process is successful.

JC, March 2008

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