Artist's Blog
I used to have an Artist's Statement all worked out, until one day I realized that other people had said it better than I ever could. So, to try to express why I paint and what I want to accomplish, I'm offering the two quotations below. If it comes across as kind of corny -- well, tough, that's me.
First, a quotation from Charles Hawthorne, a painter and teacher in the early twentieth century:
"What people subconsciously are interested in is the expression of beauty, something that helps them through the humdrum day, something that shocks them out of themselves and makes them believe in the beauty and the glory of human existence."
And second, from the English poet and artist William Blake:
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower;
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
The rest is just technique.