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Copyright 2010 Kerne Erickson -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All images on this website are protected by US Federal Copyright Law, and reproduction without permission is not allowed.
Certain images have been licensed for publication and are further protected in those applications.
kerne@kericksonart.com
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In this age of accelerating technology, it can seem a bit amusing to take my simple tools, my sticks and colored dirt (brushes and pigment) to a blank canvas and commit an act of creation single-handedly. However, after many years, whether in the late hours of the night in my studio or in broad daylight in plein air, it is this act that remains a drive and a joy .....and the subject of this website.
I do thoroughly enjoy much of modern life, and yet I am drawn to earlier simpler times in my thoughts and paintings, which provide a counterpoint to the current. My experience of emotion, light, atmosphere, perspective and color is applied to scenes that develop. Sometimes a painting will take the form of an old travel poster scene in a style that could be termed Retro Realism. Other times it may be a scene that I am standing in at the moment.
At the foundation of every painting is an essence, a primary concern. Sometimes that essence may become rather concealed by the subject matter or style or commission, other times it is raw and vivid. At the core, I am interested in the place of meeting. The relationship between sky and earth. The flowing and friction and energy that comes as the invisible interacts with the visible, as the still things become animated. Set free to live. Breath. Grow. A symbiotic system. Vital to all else. Is it random? Is it conscious? Is it intentional? Is it sustainable? Has it been disrupted?
Big questions persist as I am compelled to look closely at ordinary scenes. Scenes that become, through my intention and response, dynamic gestures.....abstract shapes vividly recorded in pigment on canvas. My technique involves paint flowing in directed chaos floating along a film until it locks into harmony with the previous frozen passages. Layer upon layer, in the present, missing the past, wondering about the future, I paint.
Welcome.
I do thoroughly enjoy much of modern life, and yet I am drawn to earlier simpler times in my thoughts and paintings, which provide a counterpoint to the current. My experience of emotion, light, atmosphere, perspective and color is applied to scenes that develop. Sometimes a painting will take the form of an old travel poster scene in a style that could be termed Retro Realism. Other times it may be a scene that I am standing in at the moment.
At the foundation of every painting is an essence, a primary concern. Sometimes that essence may become rather concealed by the subject matter or style or commission, other times it is raw and vivid. At the core, I am interested in the place of meeting. The relationship between sky and earth. The flowing and friction and energy that comes as the invisible interacts with the visible, as the still things become animated. Set free to live. Breath. Grow. A symbiotic system. Vital to all else. Is it random? Is it conscious? Is it intentional? Is it sustainable? Has it been disrupted?
Big questions persist as I am compelled to look closely at ordinary scenes. Scenes that become, through my intention and response, dynamic gestures.....abstract shapes vividly recorded in pigment on canvas. My technique involves paint flowing in directed chaos floating along a film until it locks into harmony with the previous frozen passages. Layer upon layer, in the present, missing the past, wondering about the future, I paint.
Welcome.
