Bill Jobson
For as long as I can remember, I have tried to capture events and scenes around me, early on with a Bic ball-point, preferably black ink on mom’s typing paper. While subjects of fantasy and high drama were aspired to at first, it was a while before discovering truth in the visual impressions of a working-class Bronx upbringing.
I think of each of my paintings as a random page fallen from an unknown book. They illustrate a passage that can only be imagined. Or, as they are emancipated, they may suggest or become their own story.
I work in oil paint on a variety of surfaces including canvas, wood and paper in a range of sizes. While the subject in the piece is based in reality, I see it as a principal in a great drama. They are still but have action and motion, and have their place in the light.
There are undiscovered things we pass by every day. And what was once there. I try to take another look.
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