The push and pull to ‘do’ art captured me as a child and has been constant companion since. This artistic journey has allowed me to express the many levels of life I have experienced coming of age in the late sixties with a bohemian life stlyle, wars and the devastation AIDS brought society in the eighties. The relationship I have to the world and my fellows influences each piece.

My palette evolves with each series. Color expresses the here and now for me. As life progresses, my color choices unfold. Rather the work is suggestive or totally abstract, emotinal invovement seems to always be present. The composition reveals itself to me durning the process as if some magical event had just occured. Each new series pulls threads from previous bodies of work. The transition from one series to the next might be an organic progression or an immediate response to world events. Prior to 9/11, I was experimenting with a rare representational series. The “Face” paintings shown in my portfolio are examples of this period. The images and emotions of 9/11 and the consequences that followed begged to find life through my work. I craved healing and found the face series morph into more serene compositions.

The “Landscape” series was different in the extreme but demonstrated a typical branching of my work. Oil on canvas is my usual medium. My tools are putty knives, rags and an occasional pencil. The only brush strokes seen in my work since the eighties are in my signature, however the signature is usually just scratched into the surface of the paint. This choice was born of necessity. Money or not, art finds life so when I could not afford the usual tools I grabbed what I could. Eliminating brushes also eliminates solvents so the earth gets a little break.

I was born in nineteen fifty and still pushing paint in the new millennium. Although my work is by no means traditional, I have done my seat time learning the basics. For many years I learned painting by observing others and practicing. In some dark closet hides the Master’s degree I earned in the eighties. I found that college was a great arena for support. Sometimes that surprises my audience. It surprises me too. As a bohemian high school drop out in the sixties, I did not expect to earn an advance degree. This body of work represents one chunk out of my lifelong conversation with the world through paint. It is at this place of sharing with the viewer that I find completion with the work. Hope you enjoy the endeavor. Jerry lee Frost