"My work explores the connection between the artist and the model, the energy exchanged between the two. It's about emotional response, tactile, visceral, abstract, created with a limited color palette, leaving the brush strokes and drips raw and unrefined. It's as much a conversation as a picture, a snapshot of emotion, a thread running between the observer and the observed. Connective Tissue."
Oil on canvas board. This piece was painted at Hipbone Studio over two different sessions. The base layer is a medium shot of Doug, a ruddy complected model,
very muscular. The second layer, taped horizontally is Scott, a tale male with an average build. I like the tension. It’s in the possession of Michael Kounavis.