Passionate Focus 2010 Artists
David Simpson
My educational background was in Political Science and Literature with an emphasis on poetry, short stories and character sketches. In the visual arts, I have pretty much informally piecemealed my experience and education in the painting disciplines from within and outside academia. My approach to art varies from painting to painting and season-to-season depending on what inspires or enchants me at the time, and also, what my eyes can handle depending on the kind of dominant light source of any given season. This may lead one who is not attuned to creative processes, or visual impairments, to believe I am flippant and incorrigibly defiant of convention; they would be right and wrong, at the same time. I try to remain adaptable in my style approach. It helps me to avoid, as much as possible, the "dead end" game of "perfectionism." Not locking my work into some type of hyper-analytical, critics'-type purism keeps me free to create, explore, and, yes, at times, accept convention when it suits my needs. If it makes sense, I will let go of convention in a heart-beat when I see a better way to make sense to the structure of a composition or an interpretation of the piece. When the twisting of the creative process has subsided, my pieces tend to end up in the representational narrative spectrum. That is where I feel the most freedom to combine my love of story telling and my desire to visualize the story itself; my lyrical abstractions rest and delights my eyes and mind, letting me know there are other ways to tell a story and visualize it as well.
Stilts in a Field
The Lucky Goat that Got Away
An Important Conference
