Untitled Print

Samuel Burbury Hanchett, born in 1976 in Long Island/New York, studied art at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania/USA and Syracuse University in Florence/Italy. "Though sometimes stark, the art has a spark and radiance of flashing perception. Some are bone-bare elegant; others are thickly lined. Every particle of color has electric authenticity. Every stroke limns the drama of human personality, the journey of the soul." Usually the images come from within; but even when using a picture or an object for inspiration, what I end up with is something I couldn’t have conceived of before beginning. The creative process itself proves most exciting for me when I take risks: proceeding more by instinct. My hope in letting my intuition lead in the creative process is that those unplanned brush-strokes will blend with the ones that are also intended, thus drawing the chaotic into something solid and contained. As an artist, this approach allows me to directly explore those strange, primitive inklings in opposition within me and presumably, us all. Once this combination of work, paint and energy concludes in breaking through, I become its viewer also, and what I find that this form of expression can do for us is to make possible a way to say or feel something significant that could only be conveyed through this language of paint and the surface it has been applied to.