William Oistad

As a painter, I continue to embrace the traditions of Abstraction as a vehicle to express the essence of ‘exploration’ through layering and refining the painted surface with line, form and color. I am drawn to the spontaneous generation of forms and lines, and allow my hand to be guided by the moment and intuition as a continual process of action and reaction. I strive to give myself the freedom to “take a line for a walk” at any given moment in the painting process. My visual aesthetic leads me to the subtle implication of familiar forms, leaving enough ambiguity to invite multiple references.