Artist Portfolios

R. Sawan White

"I believe artists create for two purposes - because they are seeking something or because they have found it. And the truest art - the art that makes me stop clean in my tracks -it is both the seeking and the finding in one. This is not deep and existential, it is necessary to every human being. It is necessary to know that we live and ask and tell and interact with meaning.

I find language full of inconsistencies and delicate lines which translate into images to me.

I believe my paintings are like conversations, changing and edifying relationships. My paintings build not only one on the other, but within each one. The processes of my paintings - the layering of oil paint and waxes, the intaglio line drawings between each layer rubbed in and then back out again, the final layers hiding entire narratives beneath them - they are a vocabulary, a developing language as beautiful and frustrating as a spoken word. I don't think there is one grand masterpiece to be attained or a single theorem to execute the perfect painting. Like a old friend there is the foundation of years of back and forth of words which have chiseled out our finer features and taught what we believe. It is the process which matters, the act of interaction.  

I believe so much of who we are is determined by what comes out of us."

                                                                                                             - R. Sawan White                                  

"my own and personal spot" 24" x 24" Oil and wax on wood	"on my nature and my mind" 2' x 3' Oil and wax on wood Available for Purchase
"for wd and the decrease for your woman" 2' x 3' Oil and wax on wood Available for Purchase	"singing to you while you are asleep" 16" x 20" Oil and wax on wood
"further from here" 18" x 18" Oil and wax on wood	"grown old without time to think about it" 12" x 24" Oil and wax on wood
"i'd never give them back if they'd ask" 12" x 18" Oil and wax on wood Available for purchase	"my Sweet portrait of the cold" 20" x 24"
"a man a tree and a knife at the dinner party" "16 x 12"	"and the trees there were each only a branch of something bigger and foolish" 24" x 24"
"a special clutter, a simple right" 12" x 12"	"for dreaming of elevators and blindness" 14" x 11"
"how the years drape for you"	"spring for new vocabulary" 12" x 12"
"i wont be the judge of that" 10" x 10"	"my conflict always seems to move to the corners" 18" x 18"
"poor sun confused with rising houses"	"so close it bends off the roofs and into the rain barrel" 11" x 14"
"when our mountains were young, our words old and verse perfect" 20" x 20"	"the beginning of how things are or the end of founding" 24" x 36"

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