Artist's Statement
Painting for me isn't a thing or any activity. It isn't a job or hobby and can be called an interest in as much as one might call your sense of balance an interest. It is something I work on, but it IS me. It is a part of how I move through, observe, and understand my surroundings.
My figures are phrenic and interpretive. I like to explore ideas for my paintings using heroic or tragic figures as narration. The human form translates a story well. Like my forms, the concepts and ideas are at once familiar, but soon warp with the observations and imagination of the viewer. They are interpretations of ideas my environment inspires in me. My landscapes take on similar traits and become more than just regurgitations. I believe they become imbued with the rhythm of the place, the vibration, like a tune of the location. This is what is going on when I paint it. I try to listen for cues visually. And that's about as much sense of it as I can describe for you.
I must explore and describe this journey and painting satisfies both. I must paint ad inexplorata, through the labyrinth of this human condition.
About Lance
Lance was born to the Fall of 1972.
Currently living and working in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, most nights are spent in the studio, exploring.