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 often feels like it's appearing from fog or memory, my layered surfaces do that too -- forms seem buried, revised or half recovered

- symbolic,  inward energy

 Even when my work is abstract, it carries psychological weight. that  aligns with Redons symbolist instinct: art  as a vessel for emotional or spiritual states, not just visual arrangement.

- A respect for fragility

Redon could make a surface feel delicate without making it weak. my quieter pieces have that same balance: restrained but not empty.