DARREN ENGLEMAN Bisbee, AZ, US

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“Why do I paint?”
“Why am I compelled to do this work?”
“What am I wanting to say in these paintings?”
"What questions need to be asked?"
As a self-taught artist, these questions are constant companions in my creative process.
My work explores the creative tension in representional paintings of familiar subjects, such as flowers or animals, that evolve into textural, geometric and symbol rich abstractions. This is what feeds my creative hunger and brings me back to my easel day after day. The poet Mary Oliver describes better than I can the compelling idea that draws me into each painting: “and how could anyone believe that anything in this world is only what it appears to be".
Several characteristics that emerge regularly in my paintings point to my important questions and values.
●Layering translucent and semi-opaque acrylic weaves a geometric mosaic of rippling concentric circles, constellations of square windows that partially reveal past layers, abundant repetitive patterns and a web of intersecting lines visually sewing together the composition. This all suggests the vast, incomprehensible set of connections behind everything we experience, as John Muir said