Ghost Particles no. 3

30" x 40"

Acrylic

To purchase this painting please contact the artist at christopher@chriswoolley.com

"When I started this painting I had developed a pretty good idea of how these paintings should look and work. Much of the paintings character is laid out when the initial washes are put down. So once I had prepped the canvas the way I wanted I mixed my colors for the first wash and grabbed the appropriate brush and began brushing in my paint. However, what began happening was that the paint went down kinda like I wanted but kinda not. And as I progressed through the subsequent glazes I began to see the painting take on a form that I hadn't anticipated.

Back when I was painting in a representational style everything was tightly controlled and you more or less knew what the final outcome would look like. However, with a nonrepresentational style there isn't any subject matter to direct the outcome of the painting. So I begin to see that the paintings are going to breathe on their own. Virtually every artist will tell you that paintings many times seem to take off in other directions than what the artist intends. Sometimes it comes across rather eerily as though the painting has come from some other place.

I don't believe that the paintings are developed by some unseen force, I believe that even though the process of creating these paintings is fairly simple it is in fact very complex and many unseen factors come into play to dictate the direction of the work. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it ....... ish."

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