wayne art center

Fred will discuss how he paints, the decisions he makes, the importance of showing a variety of different marks and how he likes to work with color.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT As a plein air painter, I enjoy exploring new places and discovering subjects that make a place unique. Generally, I like to choose complicated landscape subjects. I enjoy the exercise of simplifying the complexity, bringing attention to the important visual qualities that interest me. In a way it could be considered an abstraction of the subject, but I seek to portray the basic shape accurately. My painting process is not formulaic. I prefer to work intuitively and improvisational, sometimes with no predetermined result in mind. By painting this way, I hope to capture the fresh energy of the experience with expressive paint application. This is an important quality I strive for and what is so wonderful about plein air painting. Often it is the paintings which I have battled the hardest, destroyed and resurrected that become the most interesting.