Artist Statement

“The tools used here really don’t matter. The expression is of utmost import. The expression of the expression is all. This expression is the language we have chosen, forged by what we've learned from life and brief moments of revelation and hopefully it comes from the heart. As with dance, song, or athleticism, painting from the ‘deep within’ uncovers a 'comfort zone’, a wellspring that we can all draw from, and using a few simple tools to express what essentially cannot be told but only experienced, what I call art is my small attempt to show how I perceive these inexpressible things as they manifest themselves to me. This need to communicate, to express what surges through the heart, to embrace the environment, to interact with the inhabitants of that environment, those things that show how words that define quite simply fail to encompass the essence of the incredible, the commonplace, the rare and the common, all the opposites and all the shades in between.”


Arthur Wright
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