Featured Artists from Direct Art Volume 16 |
I think about death a lot. I’m very aware of the fact
that I only have so much time to get this stuff done before the game is over. In the big
picture our lives are so short and our perspective is so narrow. I just want to
communicate what my experience of being alive was like and add my tiny piece to the
cultural pool. Art can be a signpost in time, giving a way to communicate with the future.
I just hope I can make something meaningful enough to people that it will continue to be
passed on.
Death Ink on board 32" x 40" ___________________________________ Dominic Rouse "To take a piece of paper coated with a silver gelatin and then allow light and chemicals to caress it in such a way that they leave behind an imprint of one’s soul is an exquisite joy that no amount of criticism can diminish. I do not have ambition as such, every completed piece is an ambition achieved."
Walt Curlee A painter of the panoramic appalachian landscape: mountains and farms, fields and orchards.
___________________________________ My most recent series of paintings consists of large scale watercolors depicting various wreath-like arrangements made of bacon. Most of them are symmetrical and somewhat reminiscent of the Rorschach ink blot test. I enjoy combining the formal elegance of design with the recognizable banality of bacon, along with the surreal and absurd accompaniment of other decorative elements such as flowers, butterflies, and fruits.
___________________________________ Harper - Shanks The Happy Couple We are Ann Harper and Steve Shanks. We’re married and the things that drew us together have multiplied over the years and the connectedness sometimes shows up in paintings. We each paint about hope in a world that is often void of hope and where an ugly reality pushes down the hope we all want. To find hope we must first acknowledge the ugliness where both exists side-by-side.
Right: Steve Shanks, My Time is Coming, Oil on canvas |
