Its Hard to Put Into Words Painting

I am a visual artist who resides and works in Vancouver, Canada. I have exhibited my work both locally and abroad and have a lengthy exhibition history. My patrons include both corporate and private collectors. When I work, I combine bright colors with a loose representation which allows some elements of the paintings to skirt the edge of abstraction while a modicum of representation draws the viewer in to a referenced subject. Acrylic paint on either canvas or board is my primary medium but paintings often include other elements including oil and spray paint, pastel, graphite and a host of other materials at hand. These various mediums are applied with different styles of brushes, scrapers, stencils and rags; whatever utensil is at hand. I like to think the painted image stands above our hyper-accelerated culture and provides an opportunity for individuals to stop and consider, if only for a moment, what someone else is thinking about. In my experience the viewing of a painting, within the absence of the artist and presence of their idea, can be transformational. And it’s that opportunity, or potential, to create a painting that resonates with an individual in some unanticipated way that is ever so enticing to me.