Why contemporary style?
Traditional art was done magnificently by the great masters – Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Constable, Turner etc. That work, done many years ago, is superb, classic and near perfect. It belongs to that period when it acted as much to explain its world as to make works of great beauty. Contemporary art on the other hand, belongs in today’s world. A world that is complex, busy, advanced, materialistic, productive, uncertain and so on. It is a world that is vastly different from that of the past. It is dramatically changing still-almost daily. Contemporary art has the unique ability to participate and explain those great changes. Through today’s art, the artist sees new opportunities, explains social problems and highlights topics that concern us all. Contemporary art allows the artist to be free, exploratory and imaginative. Through that art, I can work in areas that can only be explained by totally uninhibited and liberated brushstrokes over my world, the canvas.
