Artist’s Statement

The Flowing World(A Gorgeous Mess)

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. I find it mostly in the world around me in the sunlight scenes of the natural landscape. I sense more than meets the eye in this places and so I expand on 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 internalize the world around me as I see it dissolve into light, color, and flowing movement. I am of the first generation of people to grow up watching TV.  Even as a child I loved Nature shows that inspired me to travel and look deeply, especially to the quality of light in the scenes. The vibrations of the TV screen echoed the vibrations in Nature that I sensed, This reality is now being brought out in scientific discoveries about everything being made up of energy. It seems this energetic viewpoint has crept into my works as I paint flowing fields of light and color. These lighted fields of visual experiences are what I wander in for the experience of unity.

 Clay Vajgrt

(Pronounced Vay -Gert)