"Japanese Motif II" by C.J. Swanson

30 x 40 inchesAcrylic & collage on canvas$1,200 Contact C.J. to purchase Artist Statement:  Starting out with a connection to my preceding works. I work using intuition and improvisation to develop a painting. I am endeavoring to capture ideas that are pictured in my mind. Sketching and drawing daily to stay visually fit, the concept works itself out eventually as long as I stick with the idea. My ideas are informed by solid structures, organic life and transparent elements of design seen in daily environment. These concrete, steel and glass structures are seemingly solid and unmovable, but I see them as organic. The forms move and bend in my imagery because I wish to create a new way of seeing. My concern is about the discovery of the visual and painting my personal artistic influences as they transform. I paint overlapping and sometimes colliding with structural grid-like forms. I tether cells of color that relate to the borders around them. Sometimes they are floating in a net