Chuck Kelton

 Hey Teach, don't worry! This blog will be done in time, just had painting to focus on. Anyways, today I'll be giving a closer look at Chuck Kelton, who I'm sure is just fine but didn't really give me inspiration past the thought that you could make very pretty things with chemical work. I veered far off to something much more my style that I found myself very happy with. Anyways Chuck Kelton does beautiful abstract landscapes through chemical painting. I'm not entirely sure why but I think he perhaps just finds joy in experimenting and using many mediums to convey his work. A quote that honestly feels very raw and confusing explains what drives his art. " Kelton calls himself a romantic in a traditional sense, with an intellectual need to exist in a visually conceptual conversation. His practice is a conversation between his emotions, ideas and the materials. His most successful works transcend a need to represent non-photographic objectivity while creating the appearance of a natural phenomenon. These works are deeply personal, produced in a deliberate and spontaneous practice while searching for a visual vocabulary. They render both unique and universal, defying their own medium." I definitely find myself agreeing, my work is a process of try try try again until the thought I have comes across fully expressed within the medium I'm using. I love the experimental feeling of chemical painting and the impossibility of recreating it, it makes every work feel permanent and important. Truthfully chemical painting has been one of the most rewarding things I've tried all semester and I'm very happy with it! Anyways here's some photo's from Kelton!

A View, Not from a Window #201A View, Not from a Window #217Thoughts on Mountains and Valleys #31

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