Dennis Baker

Artist Statement

Each painting carries an opportunity to offer a psychologically interesting experience. With seascapes, there is a deep and visceral connection we feel with land and sea, a kind of metaphor for the human experience. We are stripped clean of thought, returned to a state of existence where we are cleansed. Waves and tides provide us with an ever changing eternal rhythm and we sense the parting and shifting and tugging of life and our humble place within nature is offered to us - we see our place within this vastness more clearly. With figurative painting I try to offer the existence of another and their state of mind, to see their world and let it alter you for a moment. In this peculiar way we are made to feel differently or maybe sense that others live and feel as we do, providing us with challenges or insights or comfort, knowing we are not so different nor alone. In my latest work, as I ease into abstraction of both the land and figures, I’m trying to find an essence of each subject that reaches beyond the elements within each composition to simple yet meaningful concepts to relay purpose and connection.

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