What is Jazzpainting?
The technique I call Jazz Paint was derived while experimenting with paint. As a sculptor, in 1994, I needed a type of painting system for a piece of sculpture I was working on. It had to be flexible, bright and colorfast, with ultra-violet protection. In sculpture, it is called Polychrome. I came up with acrylic paints with varnishing or glazing ― something I can build up in layers to give me this bright, colorful, shiny surface.
I compare this technique and its results with jazz music.
Experimentation and discovery still go on and it is the discovery I enjoy most. I have set aside my sculpture for now, in order to concentrate on my painting.
JazzPaint has another aspect to it, a third dimension, impossible to show in photography, so a painting cannot be duplicated.
It is intriguing when one gets up close to examine the painting. Its high gloss helps color come alive. Jazz Paint is about color and movement.
This medium is flexible, colorfast with ultra-violet protection, waterproof, scratch resistant and easy to clean. I use the best acrylics and pigments. Paintings are on "gallery-wrap" canvases which need no framing, or on aluminite paneling ― a very stable and strong surface for larger paintings with wood frames.
All paintings are original.
Like jazz music, with many sounds coming together, creating a blend so exciting, my Jazz Paintings give the same feeling of excitement.
EXPRESSIONISM requires internal access for creating all forms, color, shapes, lines, values; all rely on the emotive state of the artist. It is all subjective to the artist’s existence and a masculine/aggressive approach; imagination, philosophy, spirituality, one’s demons, and realization and celebration of the duality of this existence.
Many other contemporary artists join me in working in this vein, but it would be unfair to categorize and peg, as I don’t really like labels and pigeonholes. Simply put, Expressionism is an art form where the extreme emotional states of the artist are applied to a surface or medium. The Expressionist does not look, he sees. Expressionist artists are those who are interested in exploring, in discovering rather than imitating or reproducing what is they see. Expressionists want to feel and express life .