Autumn Creek

oil on panel

9" x 7"

"Its alright to let yourself go as long as you can let yourself back."

Mick Jagger

The trick, when painting outdoors, is that there are no tricks. Everything is in flux and there are no shortcuts and no formulae. Only the exploration of the truth. This is what attracts me most of the time, this absence of repetition or certainty. One must relearn the whole thing all over again as one tries to let go of preconception or knowledge. It is this plunging -in while abandoning the worry of result or product that frees the painter to the total absorption in the moment, the light, the space, the energy. It is discovering an approach to physics from the non-mathematical side of things. The reassurance comes from knowing of others who have gone before along the lines of a similar quest.

"A minute in the world's life passes!
To paint it in its reality and forget everything for that!

To become that minute." Paul Cezanne