steve modzelewski

Artist Statment

Painting from life instructs me in the extraordinary art of seeing the world. I find excitement leaving my house on foot or bicycle with my paints. Painting from life is a kind of gateway to the invisible world lying below the surface of "so called" reality. Painting is a kind of mental corridor in which common, ordinary space is fransfigured into sacred space. For me, the act of painting does not simply imitate space, rather it leads to a complex path of envisioning the world enchanted.