Clay Vajgrt
Luminous landscape Paintings in Oil and Acrylic
26832 Madrone Drive,Cloverdale California

Artist’s Statement

The Liveliness of the World

The 20th century artist Mark Rothko defined art’s purpose to ”distill all experiences down to their essential unity”.

Moments in my life when I have had this experience of “wholeness” are what I continue to pay attention to and I find it in the world especially in the sunlight scenes of the landscape as they cascade down around me. I sense more than meets the eye and so I expand these windows of the visible to include the unseen forces of nature. Exposure to natural phenomenon and the beauty of the landscape provide me with ample inspiration for my paintings..

I plant my bohemian roots to grow art that embraces the world around me as I see it dissolve into light, color, and movement. I am of the first generation of people to grow up watching TV but even then I looked for nature shows that inspired me to travel and look deeply, especially to the quality of light in the scenes. It seem this cinema graphic viewpoint has crept into these works as widescreen fields of the moving energy of life. These lighted fields of visual experiences are what I wander in for the experience of unity.

 Clay Vajgrt

(Pronounced Vay -Gert)