LYRICAL COLORIST
A new term of painting I have just thought of. Lyrical being one with movement and texture, to see that there is the hand of the painter within the painting.
Colorist being one whom focuses their canvases upon color. A strong sensation which guides one painter to choose one color for a painting, or for a glaze, over another color.
My paintings have been called Sensuous, which I will give them that. And at the same time Painterly, that I guess is given up to the idea that those viewing my work really have no idea how I construct my own paintings. Which for myself and my way of painting is quite a gift. For when they don't know how it was conceived, it only adds to the allure and the mystery of a painting of mine.
I have been trying to come up with a term for my particular brand of painting. And being that I am the painter of these paintings. I too am a part of that brand. Before I allow some critic who really does not know of my ideas about painting and my true ways of working. When they take their idea of me and put it into a category. I believe I will save them the time and categorize my own paintings myself.
I do not belong to a group, I am friends with many painters, but they have their own mark, as do I. Brought forth by many many steps into the unknown in painting. It gives me the opportunity to say that I do not paint as anyone else does. I am not a copycat painter who simply tries to mimic another painter he greatly admires. Because I want my own page in the book of art history, not to go down as one of the many who imitated the one. But to be one of the one.
August, 28, 2009 @ 2:06 AM Jeffrey Collins