Baron arrived at his current choice of media through a process of evolution, having started in 1980 with collage, and moved on to oil pastel. Jerry finds working with a particular medium to be a process of discovery. He currently works with oil bar and acrylic. He finds oil bars to be very fluid, allowing his emotion and energy to express through pressure on the surface. For Baron, the image and the medium are inextricably intertwined.
Paintings are all about color.
His work with oil bar is built on paper that has been first taped to glass and pretreated by rubbing the surface with water or acrylic polymer. He goes back to the treated surface to see what he might find there. It's about spontaneity and innocence. The connections which arise from the developing image are part of me. They will be there when I'm done.