My 1800s artistic inheritance...
I take after "Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916) because I'm drawn to what lives just beyond clear sight, to images that hover, suggest and breathe quietly rather than explain themselves. Like Redon, I am interested in atmosphere in de tender uncertainty of things half revealed. But where my work becomes its own voice is in the way I build and unbuild the surface through layers, traces, erasure and weathered marks. I let memory remain visible like something faintly remembered beneath the skin of the painting what moves me most is not the image alone but what persist inside it, the remnants, the scars, the silences. What I inherited from Redon: - Mood over description Redon often built meaning through atmosphere, suggestion, and inner life rather than clear narrative. I do something similar, my paintings don't insist on a single reading. they ask the viewer to dwell. - the power of the partial and the unresolved His works ofte...
