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It's been more than a bit since I last wrote an Artist Statement on my section for them. I've kept track of them fairly well on my website since 2003 yet somehow ended up placing this one in the blog arts related category.  Maybe because this one is more directly art process related, though that shouldn't have been why, so I'll have to guess I either goofed up, or secretly wanted to place one of my artist statements where people looking for other topics on my site my come across it  :-)

This past January I was sure I was gonna start dipping some drops of water on my water based oil paints, see if I could get more of a sketchy watercolorish almost Berthe Morisot feel to my work.  I may have should have read ahead 8 months to one of my favorite art newsletter writer's columns, Robert Genn, on not trying to say too much about one's plans without risk of dissipating one's intentions.

But I'm not convinced I derailed my intentions so much as that they just came out their own usual unique slow way.

There has been some progress in my own eyes regarding continuing to develop a certain look I like.  I call it kinda sketchy or impressionistic, at times reminding me of watercolor some what, and lately expressed by several people as soft impressionism.

The look of course is a result, and a conveyance, of what I'm really after, my feelings.

Most of us enjoy or like or want to hang out with people we enjoy, that fulfill that essential social need we as individuals all need to feel complete; that contradictory mystery of why when we're with the right people we feel most complete as an individual.  Our aloneness revels in the right group or person.  I'm certainly no exception.  I've even begun to slowly see each painted surface I create as a populating of my inner people onto the world where I can see myself.  And the world I see emerging is a type of soft impressionism.

So, so as not to jinx myself, I promise I'll not set myself in painted stone to continue this path, but just let it continue happening, in it's own slow, uniquely personal way.

Below, is the link to a new small recently finished piece, "Central Park Record Cold March."  I think it fits well as an example.  Earlier this year, my wife Sheila and I were stretching out our last full day in New York on a record cold early-March day that peaked in the mid to upper teens.  I was so intent on experiencing this snow covered treat of park and quiet and cityscape upon my typically roasted central Texas eyes I almost got both of us frozen over, probably to be found by fellow tourists in the spring.  Or maybe one of the joggers in the painting :-)  In the next few days I'll try to post a second recent small piece, this of a lovely spring view off Hwy 71, the road I favor traveling to Houston and back.  It was in April and the rains had started early and kept coming, so the fields were abundant.  A nice contrast of seasons stirred in a nice confluence of style.

So.  Where does all this come up being part of an Artist Statement?

I'm not a hundred percent sure.  But it's something to do with my style path. It continues to emerge.

My style path, like any good love match, is twined and tweaked by all my feelings, my physical nuances, what I hope to see each day, what I hope to be, each day.

Thank you much,

Adan
www.adanlerma.com

ps - almost forgot! the new image is "Central Park Record Cold March"

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