Martin Whatson: Color and Contrast
Martin, it has been way too long since we last caught up. Whenever I see your work, a smile comes across my face as I always love the use of color in your work. I love the way you blend the different color palettes together in your pieces. Was that always your method of painting? If so, what drew you to balancing the two within one medium? I have studied both art and design, so color theory and composition is important to me, the colors are not chosen by chance, I try to bala
Adam Giroux: Beyond The Process
Adam, your subject matter is haunting to me, not only with your choice of what appears to be somewhat nameless faces, but your use of positive and negative narratives. What emotions would you like your audience to feel upon looking at your work? Each painting is an attempt at evaluating a theme from a particular perspective. For a given body of work, I will try to look at a topic like self-improvement, restrictions, or more recently, the little transactions we have in our rel
Up Close and Real Personal: Appleton Pictures
Let me first tell you how our relationship began many years ago... My Mother has had Type 1 Diabetes for over 54 years and when I noticed insulin bottles and syringes, both that I grew up with seeing in our fridge in a daily basis, on 22nd Street years ago, I had to find out more about the artist behind the art. I began sending my Mother more images that I had found on the streets depicting wheatpastes and prolific imagery from the same artist. She then shared the pictures wi
