The ultimate goal of painting, for me, is to have a finished piece that is a fantastic reflection of nature (usually a mixture of human nature and the outdoors). At the end, I may have some kind of idea wrapped up. Or an experience relived, or successfully ended. Maybe I learned something new and started exploring that; whatever happened, I kept going and have this painting to represent that process. The painting itself is the mask of many thoughts and dances.

I’m influenced heavily by Impressionism (Monet and Pissarro) and Post-Impressionism (Van Gogh and Cezanne) for their color work, personal understandings of, and consideration of nature. That and art coming out between the 40s and 60s, primarily Abstract Expressionism, but I admire and learn from Wilfredo Lam, Georgia O’Keeffe, outlier Franz Marc (1900-10s). I use the Surrealist automatist approach to the art led by color relationships and movement. Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, contemporary artist Robin F. Williams have great color techniques similar to mine.

Welcome to the experience!

- Kai