Richard Dennis
Artist Statement
The essence of art lies in the eyes of the artist. Unrestrained and complex, it is the boundless process of how the mind chooses what is placed before the eye. This all relative to individual, all subject to impulse, and all manipulated by thought. The bee becomes the flower, the stone an ocean, or the sky an impenetrable kaleidoscope of shifting reflections. These are the rites of incision; they are the cutting away of the outer layers of prescribed conformity. When I paint, I paint with my...more