This is the Year of Big

I am sitting in my studio working on some huge paintings. Their size overwhelms me while I work to classical music. I try not to think about the issues that I will face when I have to move them.

I never paint without listening to classical music.   My emotional response to each listening experience is “seeing” the colors of the sounds produced by different solo parts or passages in the music.   These colors form the basis of the painting’s production. 

Music itself is abstract:  it has color, spaces in the compositions that have no sound at all, and when you listen to music you sense a feeling of  movement, and there is a texture to the music I select for responding to.   My intention is to  have all those components in my paintings.

I do not however intend to represent or express the ideas or subject matter of the  music.   I merely respond emotionally, “seeing” and hearing the colors which become the color-shapes  that ascend in space, much the way a musical sound rises in space.