Statement

My paintings are the intersection of looking with a sensibility, or as Wallace Stevens put it: “where nature and the imagination meet.” 

I aspire to paint my experience of looking at the world, but that requires a delicate balance of outward and inward looking. The world asserts its hidden rhythms, but these are hard to describe or put in words because painting is a preverbal language. Naming forms does not help. Painting puts the world back together after the act of naming has pulled it apart. 

Those hidden rhythms are what thrill our hearts when we look out, and which the photos we take inevitably fail to convey: our deepest mysteries of looking— the rhythm of our origins—birth, death, the eternal return—when it’s just a view of a meadow and a few buildings. 

To accurately convey the complexity of looking is a form of bearing witness to one’s world and time. 

--Mark Andres