the artist's statement

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye" from THE LITTLE PRINCE. When people ask me "WHAT KIND OF ARTIST ARE YOU?"... I tell them, I am a painter ... they ask "OH oil or watercolor?".... I say, neither... I paint with light ... they give me a strange look.... IF I have the time and I think they are really interested, then I clarify... I use a camera and a scanner as a starting point, and then where it leads me I never know ... the end result may be a light capture from my scanner, or a manipulated photo, using many different computer enhancement tools including photoshop...... sometimes I create something that does not even look like anything recognizable. Then sometimes, I use mixed media.... mixing a printed inkjet picture with maybe a magazine transfer using wintergreen oil, or adding paint, or using sandpaper to rough it up ....in the end I have something original that never existed before.... just a splash of pixel dust.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

reflections


in the cool mountains of western North Carolina, grows a pretty little plant called the spotted jewelweed... the flowers are less than one inch in size ..... an old Cherokee remedy for insect bites and poison ivy comes from the juice of its stems .....

3 comments:

senator said...

Johny, I like all of the pieces, but keep coming back to this one. I think it might be the feeling of serenity. Are any of your pieces on display or consignment in WNC? I'd like to see them in real life. All the best, John McLellan

Johny Alives said...

thanks John.... I have two galleries in Florida and soon I hope to have a third... but none so far in North Carolina... do you have any suggestions as to where I could display?

senator said...

There are several little towns in western NC where I think your work would do well, Waynesville being one.