Artists are light chasers with an awareness that the darkest part of our composition (life) is needed for contrast. Contrast is an excellent teacher. Often painting is a way of saying the unsay-able, speaking the unspeakable, and expressing what cannot be expressed any other way. Authentic growth as an artist gives as much importance to the depth of darkness as the glow of the light and the glint of highlights. As in life there really are no strict lines of demarcation....only light and shadow to shape and contour......soft edges of blurred boundaries and lost and found distinctions, values and colors that hint at substance. We are willing to search for shape and subject, ideas in the poetic landscape, romantic figures, impressionistic still life, pop art and abstract expressions...but no matter the style of our art, we are light chasers.
