Dennis Potter  

 

These paintings were done during the pandemic; some 400 small pieces on wood panels and canvases.  My intention was to work with freedom into an accessible body of work.  The daily effort kept me sane during a terrible time in our history!  I experimented to find the most satisfying combination of theme and abstract process possible.  Satisfying to me only.

 

I have a clear memory of my mother finding accidental images in abstract paintings.  "I see a reindeer with horns!  In a tree! And faces, scary ones!"  I was 14 and had to snicker.  But her vision stayed with me, even until now, and the idea of  has become very important to me as an improvational process.  Very freeing; allowing me to make getural impasto then a direction to finish and define those layered, found images.  Lost and found, push, push and pull.  Hans Hoffman, Odilion Redon, Surreal, Cubiat models to follow with great freedom.

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Only recently I discovered there is a term for this vision: pareidolia! "the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern."

Faces, animals, monsters in trees or clouds...we all do it.

For me, it is a great motivation

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