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Eric Stanton Painter 1060 Jackson St Benicia, CA 94510 707-746-8696 |
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About My Art ... I began as an artist in ceramics. The process of glazing, firing and molding the clay by hand influenced my work strongly when I became a painter. Events of a personal nature flow into natural occurrences and evoke images. These images can be figurative or abstract. Form and ground are often exchanged for glyph and image, making them interchangeable. |
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| I like to allow the process to meld with the immediate sensations or the illusions of a memory. Often times I do not know whether the idea preceded the painting or the reverse. |
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Materials flow together in such a way that there is little
distinction between man- made materials and natural materials. Pigment can be paint or
tinted glue, but just as often it is a material derived from the body. When a surface or ground is selected to efface it must have a personal meaning to me, either it is found naturally or produced and stored for other purposes; this is to say that the object worked upon must have had a previous life which in some way becomes important to me. |
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My work is influenced by animals and imagined presence that exist for me. Although I capture the air of sky and motion in the daylight as memory space to paint into, it is the nighttime and my walks in the very early morning that affect the emotion and feel of the work. I grew up by the ocean and have spent some time at sea. The feel of fluid mass and timeless space through rhythmic motion as evinced by the water is one of the most important elements in my work. |
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