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Artist Statement for John Hurd
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Artist's Statement: John Hurd
Each painting is a new dive into the cenote, down deep, past the last flickers of sunlight. What I bring back into light is always a surprise.
I have been delighting in looseness, luminosity, rhythm, color, and the untranslatable calligraphic line.
Seeing a recent painting, a friend remarked, “I see that you added some shadows and some modeling.”
“Hot damn!” I shouted, “I thought I added some violet and some yellow.”
Still, my paintings are informed by divinities found in the mythic moment, owing especially to Hermes, Dionysius, and Kybele.
I paint in acrylics, having confused the turpentine and the wine much too often with oils.
I live retired and ecstatic with my wife, Julia, in ALger and in Dalmatia.
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