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One look at Michael Robear’s works and you
wonder if you’re viewing a painting or a novel. His
paintbrush creates visual stories where well worn houses speak
to the viewer about the lives lived giving shelter to the stories
played out within their walls. Michael admits to thinking
about these structures for a long long time as if these inanimate
structures fill up with memories. He creates these stories
with a muted natural palette created in watercolor and gouache,
wash and dry brush leaving the viewer wondering if what they
see is real or if they have slipped into a dream world.
Michael
combines his painting mastery with his metal and woodworking
artistry in creating frames for each original that is integral
to the painting. Each frame echoes some pattern
or linear theme of the work providing a unifying structure for
the universal it contains.
“When I paint, I do not limit
myself to rules of what can and cannot happen. In
my work, buildings float off their foundations, horizon
lines bend to distortion, people metamorphic into birds,
flowers bloom in winters frozen snow and fire can swirl
through the air as if it were alive. Making art is
a place where all things are possible, “no” cannot
exist. I let the painting evolve, controlling
what seems best and allowing to happen what must." |
