"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."
A gesture study of Jes done at Todd Leninger’s. I like to paint a few quick poses on a canvas or board as a warm up exercise. I wipe them into the surface or just build them up as the session progresses. Jes is a rock climber and very limber, she held this pose for about 15 minutes. It captures her energy quite nicely.