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Artist Statement for Barry Mortimer
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The art I make, how I make it and what it means to me
I hope you can understand why this is very difficult for me to put into words. Its like trying to explain…why and how I feel and experience (being very happy and then becoming sad.) or (seeing and experiencing light and then darkness) or (being devoted to my faith and then falling away - only to joyfully return.). These opposites are just a small example of the countless opposites pulling me in different directions, in different ways, at different times. They produce in me unrest, anxiety, uncertainty and/or fear and yet at the very same time I realize how indispensable they are for fully experiencing the beauty and wonder that makes up my life. The question is – how can I know and experience light without having also experienced the dark or how I can fully experience the dark without knowing the light. Both the light and the dark are required to understand one or the other or both.
I also believe the unrest brings into being a need in me for a place of comfort (I call this place – My Quiet Place).
It is this belief, this concept, and this thought, which directs my efforts in the making of my art. This is why I know I need to work with a well-defined reason and purpose. And that it is essential for finding this quiet place not only within the creative process but also for defining that place within the art itself.
To accomplish this in my art I use the beauty and form arising from balancing equally proportioned elements (symmetry). The symmetrical elements symbolize my quiet place, a spiritual place, a place of peace and contentment, and will usually be found in the center or axis of my compositions. The ill proportioned unbalanced (asymmetrical) elements found in the same compositions symbolize for me all of the opposites that generate the opposing forces.
A full color spectrum will almost always be used in my art. I combine the three primary colors of red, yellow and blue and use what I call - the colors of life, (the ones found in a light passing through a prism and/or the colors seen in a rainbow).
In the last few years I have found that by creating my originals, and limited editions, using my computer, helps me to concentrate on concepts rather than technique. I believe this focus on concepts increases the meaning and quality that may be found in the art I make.
I know the art I make is finished - when I can look at it and be compelled to gladly move in and out of its quiet place - reminding me, how important is to do the same with each new day.
Mortimer, B. W.
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