Richard D. Phipps
Paintings & Art

"For me painting is trying to make real the impossibility of making matter into images aimed beyond its own materialism. It’s an act of faith. Like life, it’s a process of change: if you don’t know where you’re going, you likely will get to somewhere else, that moment of recognition when the work is complete. 

 

I prefer abstract terms that make direct the contemplation of sheer appearance of things apart from practical purpose; to experience seeing without distraction of naming; a liberation of perception. What a viewer may get from my work does not require explanation. Flaubert says: “art is not technology and cannot be ‘mastered’, it is an endless access to revelatory states of mind”. I agree."

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