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The Summit at Dusk
     36 x 96 in.
oil on canvas
$12,000

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​Artist's Statement

How and why do I decide to make a specific painting? 


Always, I experience an instant of recognition that something
I’ve observed could — and must — become a painting. Those
instants arrive as unexpected gifts, as if suddenly I had found
a pearl lying on a beach. 


I’ve come to realize that what arrests my attention in this way
has several components, but the most important is a quality
of light that evokes an emotion akin, perhaps, to feelings that
can come from poetry.  Also, I am drawn to a scene that has
an underlying sense of geometry and combination of colors
that I judge to contain the possibility of delicious harmonies.
 
Then comes the process of distilling and refining those elements.
Meeting that challenge requires taking full advantage of the specific
properties and personalities of the medium itself, whether oil, pastel
or watercolor. 


In making a painting, I want to free the medium to speak in its own voice,
of course, but I try to imbue the medium with the moods, memories,
surprises, and visual delights I found in that original instant of recognition.
 
Some of my work is created on location, but occasionally I’ll revisit certain
ideas in the studio, where I may develop a new painting, a variation, often
in a medium different from a prior version. 


In the studio, I love working in oil, with its great range of textural and coloristic
possibilities. When working on location, I do enjoy pastel’s efficiency and
directness, but I also relish the challenge of watercolor.
 
I grew up in Texas. That likely explains why many of my pictures convey a sense
of open spaces, and why they often comment on the sky, with its infinite range
of moods and atmospherics.

Roy Perkinson