ARTIST STATEMENT

What’s going on here?  

I love when I have that reaction to a piece of art, and hope to kindle that curiosity in my own.

In studies of nature and everyday life, I’m interested in exploring what lies beneath the surface. I aim to provoke the sense that there’s something unexpected there beyond the apparent. Beauty masking menace. Nature struggling with change. A landscape subtly tipping from the real to the surreal.

Inspiration is everywhere – glances out a window, a wilted rose, birches rushing by from a speeding train, squiggles behind the eyelids. It often comes from daily hikes in the Blue Hills Reservation. While hiking, I’m swept up by nature’s compositions – sculpted trees and rocks, every green imaginable, rain-soaked browns, icy glazes, the light, the gloom – as I tramp along, half the fun is imagining how I’ll capture it. The stillness, mystery, and fury in nature are there to be grabbed. And today, unfortunately, sometimes it’s the apparent strain of a forest under duress. Other times it’s the surreal clarity of a brilliantly sunlit scene.

CONTACT

For further information, I can be reached at:

clsbean@hotmail.com

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