STEVE PAYNE
“My paintings are just at the intersection of representational and abstract. I am interested in creating space and distance that feels like the familiar world around us but is ambiguous, general, and abstracted. In my painted world I want visual plains and geometric shapes to intersect, overlap, and ultimately create a sense of visual distance and depth.
Color is a passion without end for me. Ancient Light flows around us, seen and unseen daily. I don’t see art as a job but as a life. My painting becomes the liquid of life for me. And validates the ideas that I work from. My Drawings are primordial although representational. Charcoal comes from fire. Carbon reminds us of what we came from. Having been Classically trained in drawing. I now want to harken back to a deeper collective unconscious. Back to a more primitive or advanced cave drawing."
— Steve Payne
