James Kirkland

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“The natural world has a complexity and resolution beyond measure. As colors can be recorded somewhat accurately. Accurately recording the subtlest shapes of nature is almost impossible, So I reduce natures objects to their basic forms and try to capture the subtle characteristics and movement of each object by sculpting the paint in a similar fashion. Color I believe, more than any other aspect of a painting is most important, and conveys a tremendous amount of information so much so that the use of the right color placed even approximately the right location can give the observer all the information he needs to reconstruct an image seemingly in accurate full detail. I believe a painting done properly can be an interactive experience, and maybe this is true for all paintings. So if this is true, is it possible that each of us has a visual intelligence far beyond what we would believe, and far beyond what is required to create a painting. Consequently, I believe we are all artists, whatever that might be.”

-- James Kirkland