THE DARK TUNNEL BEYOND ltd edition 1of 4 Painting

I am an Architect by profession. After a long and rewarding career in USA, I have returned to India with my wife. Due to my childhood passion of drawing and painting I have taken a full retirement from my Architectural career and now solely devote my time to Paintings. I use a number of mediums, which include, pencils, watercolor pencils, acrylic, airbrush and digital stylus. I never use photographic or ready to use images in my digital work. Most of my work can be categorized as conceptual abstract expressionism. However, like the modern movement, I believe that a painting is a form created by an artist on a two dimensional surface. This form must be fully developed in it self and interesting and engaging in the eyes of the observer. Granted, the observer's receptors can be engaged in numerous ways and methods, I try to create that interest by taking the observer on an intimate journey of color, texture, transparency, tones, spaces, voids, solids, objective and non objective figures / symbols that may articulate my inner feelings. The process is normally spontaneous, which should show through my paintings. I would take familiar figures like a human face and break it down in to non objective /objective shapes and symbols. I can not escape the feeling content in my work. However I try not to lose my focus on the form. I believe the spontaneity riding on inner feelings shapes the outcome.