Sept. 2005 -
I work from home, in my basement studio in Vail, Colorado. Living in the Colorado Rockies, the mountains and the West have a dominant influence on my work. Colors and forms from western landscapes are obvious in my images. However, these images are all imaginary and created without any specific model. I work spontaneously allowing images to surface as they are being painted. Space, movement, form and color are all very important to my work. I like images that challenge the viewer to look closer, to figure out the space and content of an image. The world is like that sometimes, you really have to look to figure out what it is you are seeing. Especially with the juxtaposition of the manmade world on the natural world. The oddities of my images are no more outrageous than the oddities found in our own environments; natural or manmade.
Unlike strict Surrealism which is meant to reveal the subconscious mind through depicting images of the subconscious, Abstract Surrealism confronts the actual image creation process from a subconscious point of view or a naive perspective, struggling against the confines of our assimilated conscious minds allowing our subconscious to reconstruct that which has been assimilated.
April 2007 -
My recent works have been a meditation on what and how the world will change in the future. Man versus Nature. The world is changing, is it our fault , can we stop it, do we want to stop it, do we even have the choice?
- George W. Thompson |
