ARTIST STATEMENT

This series of small paintings, ‘Homage to Georgia O’Keefe,’ is part of a wider series of my paintings which are homages to great masters. Creating these homages is particularly important for me because all of us artists are interconnected on a spiritual level. We all grow by taking inspiration from the craftmanship of other artists. I am but a cell in the body of the universe. Art allows me to break free from the fundamental loneliness of human nature; it leads each of us from being a single cell dispersed in the infinity of the universe to being part of a network of spiritual, intellectual, artistic, and emotional connections which bind all of us on the quantum field level.

Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the artists whose work I was very fond of. These homages to her however are not in any way copies or imitations; rather they bring her artistic mastery to a new plane. Every artist sees the universe in a different way, looking at it with their physical or spiritual eyes. While Georgia O’Keeffe did most of her work painting patterns and flowers from real life, these paintings are from my own imagination. I am using my sense of creation to paint and take the school of art that she started in another dimension.

There are, for example, certain techniques used in the creation of these works that aren’t “standard” for artists—they’re totally different. Through the use of these techniques, the original artistic inspiration of Georgia O’Keeffe comes alive again in a novel way, a way that is uniquely connected to my own artistic understanding.