Fall 2025

Fall news: Style finds the artist.

Style finds the artist. Regardless of the many contributing factors to creating a piece of art or how an artist emulates others’ work (and we all do), the components that combine to create each artist’s work flow off his or her brush. For me, attention to colour, composition, design, light, dynamics, admiration for another artist, and more combine to create my style. In the end, however, my work is my style.

I have been asked to conduct two workshops recently. Both invitations centered on my use of colour. This gave me pause to think about my distinctiveness. First, colours express something about me and my subject matter. Therefore, colour is integral to my style. Second, my colours are vivid because I use clean brushes. This means I use one brush to apply one colour in one area of the canvas, then they are put in the water jar. So in a four-hour painting session, I will clean all my used brushes two or three times and replace the water in the jar each time. Third, I look for new colours and limit mixing so that the colours remain vibrant. Combined, these habits contribute to the composition, design, style, and colour of the piece.

To whatever end people like my style, I am grateful for those who have given my art a new home.

Artfully Yours

JACK