Susan J. Blackmon
As an abstract artist, I believe that those who paint within this context draw upon their stored memory, gathered from life experiences and filtered by our perception and senses. These influence our own DNA imprint, passed along from our ancestors’ beginnings, and makes each artistic path a unique one. In the painting studio this retention finds a voice via abstract interpretation.
Another dynamic in my approach is the immediate output of energy recorded: in colors, gestures, movements and segments. This is what painting abstractly is ~in the same way one might generate the immediate energy of pedaling a bike ~ it is the energetic expression and record of fleeting moments, moods and ideas.
This type of approach allows for utilizing a rich vocabulary of limitless mark-making techniques, color combines and layers.The challenge is being able to notice when I’ve happened upon a direction from which I might incubate the beginning of a new piece.
Placing vivid colors onto the surface, and finding some diving off point - allowing intuition to lead what course of actions ensue - is very gratifying. Ultimately I steer towards achieving an expression of beauty, a vital lubricant by which I believe both life and art are further enlivened.