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Michael Walden, 2011
Capt. Jack's Wharf mural, Gallery Ehva, April 2011
Provincetown Town Hall, oil on canvas, 2011
My painting continues to develop. I feel closer at the moment to the time when I first broke up the surface of my canvas with the grid. Using a straight edge, I would create a 2, 3 or maybe a 4 inch grid over the drawing with the idea that each square would be treated like an individual canvas. If broken down, the paintings become simple abstract pictures. Over time, that strict grid became free form, following the contours of the landscape and the gentle nuances of the atmosphere.
This summer, there was a shift in my thought process. Being able to spend hours at a time working in the studio, I began to look for more meaning behind what I was doing in a painting. As people began to look at my work, and ask questions about it, I want to understand it more myself.
No longer is my work just about the Provincetown architecture, the landscape, or the big blue sky that I love so much. It's about the time of day, the weather and how it effects color in the surroundings. It's about how the brush strokes and interactions of color become more important than the subject matter. Returning once again to the straight edge, and how it relates to my earlier paintings, the surface is broken up by strong lines. These lines are created by the hard architectural corners and details in the manmade objects of the paintings. Horizontal, vertical, and introducing diagonals to the grid as they cut across the landscape and sky to create facets of color -- sometimes showing the many moods and colors of the day.
--Michael Walden
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