"Still Life, Lively Mind, Eastern Estate View"

Semi Abstract still life

I love still life paintings. I like them better in my style, a tittle twisted and unrecognizable. This piece was painted around 2011.  It just came out one day in the studio and then progressed to a finished state over the course of a week. Normally paintings take me years to complete but this one was one of the exceptions, boom, it was just done.

It has some thick oil paint on it straight from the tube.  I was experimenting with drawing directly from the tubes back then.  The effect was having nice bold thick lines.  This painting was the catalyst for many paintings in the coming years.

I have always been surprised this piece never sold, it has killer composition, the colors are unique and work very well together and it’s a still life. Out of the thousands of paintings I have done still life’s always sell. If they have some semblance of a flower or plant in them then they sell quicker than I can paint them.  

This one, however, is still in my collection.  I would say it is because of its size but I have sold still-life’s this big before.  Anyway, there is absolutely no meaning to this painting, it was purely the consequences of random brush strokes, and random colors.

Somehow, I formed shapes and a flow to this piece, bottles emerged, a vase like structure, and the quintessential cubes you will almost always see in my work appeared throughout the entire piece.  I am not sure why cubes or brick like structures appear in my work. There have always been squares in my paintings, since 1996.

I used to say “because you do not see right angles naturally in nature” but after looking at some rocks and crystals that was debunked.  I now think they represent the basic structures of all of life, cells, thoughts, electrons, buildings, anything really that would be considered matter.  Wavelengths are represented by something else if you look hard enough.