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Stone Riley
Greybeard's Rant page 1
(my real artist's statement)
(C) 2005 by Stone Riley
The paintings on this site are actual paintings. I do some digital artwork too and occasional photography but these are photographs of actual paintings. A few were done on ordinary wooden board, the rest on canvas from local art supply stores. These were all done in acrylic paint. I love acrylic. I much prefer an inexpensive brand that many students use because it has more "life" than the professional grade. The pigments are less finely ground and the medium is looser so a single brushstroke carries variations that look dynamic to the eye. I photograph them with a good digital camera and process the images on a large home computer.
This is Modern Art. I am utterly committed to a movement now underway where you strive to comprehend and use the whole visual language that was developed by the Modern masters between the 1890's and the 1960's. Their work was divided by competing schools -- abstract expressionism, symbolism, minimalism and the rest -- but now the idea is that each important school developed a powerful dialect for speaking to the viewer. Enough time has passed that these dialects can be unified into one language with enormous powers of communication. This type of work is distinguished from the prevailing Contemporary movement and is currently considered underground. It is thoroughly experimental.
I did some painting early on, in 1980 and 1981. Some of the work was good but I quickly realized I did not know enough to take it forward. Looking at paintings can be a form of yoga, an experience of profound and clear exploration. Indeed, painting is the great art of Western culture, like jazz music is for a smaller circle of people. Like jazz, painting is supposed to mirror us and our reality like it really is in the present time, in consciousness of other times, in consciousness of our essential nature. Every culture needs an art like that and this is ours.
I laid my brushes by until a later time. I made a living as a software engineer. I did a little sculpture and illustration and published tiny magazines, but mainly took to writing and performing stories. I became a minister in a small unorthodox religion and did pastoral counseling. Then at the age of fifty-four I breathed in deep and took it up again.
On this site you see the results so far.
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