Painting allows me to explore the conditions of the human experience realized on the canvas by using bold composition and color. Intimate truths change regularly within each of us.  I seek to divulge the condition and determination of our internal states and struggles that ultimately lead to the unfolding of our souls. It’s through this process, an image emerges and evolves to express its own unique state of reality and presence as the vibrancy and richness of oil paints affords a means to explore this unfolding to find a connection with an emerging presence.

Soul Food

Action and adversity in materials, the search for shapes
and figures within that action, exploring the beauty of the
line, mixed media and randomness, Adverse Reaction
highlights the painterly materials to detach the viewer from
the task of recognition in order to see the paint. Color, line
and form create a sense of sensuality while avoiding the
entrapment of style to cultivate independent emotional
states. The loops, lines and forms interlock and cross are
often swallowed in portions by the base color paint in the
same way that inspiration, life and creativity bleed and
blend together.

Charlie Westbrook's Art Collections