Painting is a language, a visual language, passed from painter to canvas and from canvas to viewer.
Whether it originates from an idea or an image, a mood or a vision, it is a language to be shared. Sartre said that a painting does not mean anything, it has meaning . As an artist, I make a statement using light and shadow, color, form, image, space or line. But whether that statement be simple or profound, I feel that it is important that the viewer interpret that statement in his or her own way. My thoughts or purpose at the time of creation are no longer relevant.