DARREN ORANGE
1233 Exchange Street
Homewrecker Studios
Artist Statement I am addressing the issue of natural beauty in the wake of human influence. The human struggle to control the environment has left nature scarred; however it perseveres and grows in his footsteps.
I am most directly inspired by my surroundings and where I have lived: The farm and timber homesteads of Central Washington and fishing villages on the lower Columbia River. My interests are in reflecting this authentic narrative of place in the Pacific Northwest. These sublime landscapes have provided me with reference to understand the past, and to be aware of my own mark on the environment. My work is informed and site-specific, however with a blurry abstraction leaving to interpretation ones own sense of place. My most recent work of oil painting abstractions continue to explore the reflection of the natural environment. These works are made by free association of intuitive mark making, or automatism I stretch further from the literal reference and deeper into abstraction. This is the growth I've experienced as of late. It has been a successful attempt to make the work of painting fun again by play. It's the process of pigment manipulation, aesthetic chess, and exploration of mark making carving out a composition.
1233 Exchange Street
Homewrecker Studios
Artist Statement I am addressing the issue of natural beauty in the wake of human influence. The human struggle to control the environment has left nature scarred; however it perseveres and grows in his footsteps.
I am most directly inspired by my surroundings and where I have lived: The farm and timber homesteads of Central Washington and fishing villages on the lower Columbia River. My interests are in reflecting this authentic narrative of place in the Pacific Northwest. These sublime landscapes have provided me with reference to understand the past, and to be aware of my own mark on the environment. My work is informed and site-specific, however with a blurry abstraction leaving to interpretation ones own sense of place. My most recent work of oil painting abstractions continue to explore the reflection of the natural environment. These works are made by free association of intuitive mark making, or automatism I stretch further from the literal reference and deeper into abstraction. This is the growth I've experienced as of late. It has been a successful attempt to make the work of painting fun again by play. It's the process of pigment manipulation, aesthetic chess, and exploration of mark making carving out a composition.