Why do you welcome art into your home? Do you surround yourself with things that you like, do you create your own sanctuary? This is your place, filled with beautiful things which make you happy and it is also your battlement which faces any who approach your domain. Art can be a centerpiece or a compliment to an overarching interior design.
Do you like art with bright colours and formless impressions of the 'flow' found in the natural world; like the air, or like rain, or radiating light? So do I.
I love using large canvases (and small canvases for the smaller spaces) with an abstract expressionist style. With wedges and acrylic paint, I favour complimentary colour theory, often excluding black & white. The arrangements are motivated by a desire to come into being without order or line, or the appearance of brush strokes, and as close to the seemingly chaotic yet harmonious aesthetic of the natural world’s way of arranging things, like Wabi-Sabi.
I want us to be overwhelmed by bright, chaotic colours which demand our attention- a visual sensation for our eyes; human eyes, which are brilliantly observant and attuned to a finite spectrum of visible light. I want to make art which represents our impressions of nature and our emotional response to this; when we feel connected to the natural world, when we feel drawn inexorably to a vision which makes us feel joy without compunction, and we feel compelled to engage it.
I have come to painting after spending too long thinking idly: ‘oh, if only I could’. So I did. The best time to start is now, and life is long - there are many years ahead of us.
We swing on a pendulum between the materialism of mortality and the void of meaning - but do remember that while we are here, we are living, breathing creatures that need to build a life around ourselves, and we must make a good life of it. Having art in your home is part of making a worthy home that brings happiness to both ourselves and to the people who we welcome in.