Girl with Red Hat

I find that when i paint in one style, or paint one picture for to long i get a sense of longing for change, change in the sense of creative output. I recently completed a realist portrait as a commission for a buyer, as much as i loved it as per usual i craved the freedom of abstraction once more. This time i explored the female form, i don't do that terribly often so it was fun to take create this and i plan on exploring this further. I've been viewing a lot of Picasso and ben quilty lately, i think thats where some of the stylistic influences have come from here. I loved the release of this, i will do it again

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.