PAINTINGS BY MATT WALCOTT
ARTIST STATEMENT
I start with a mark; I try to allow it to come naturally. My references are my every day; the graffiti I see, the cars and billboards I drive by, the comic books of my youth, the movies I watch, the music I listen to, and fragments from the paintings I see.
I have no idea what the final image will be, I do have an aesthetic that I am striving for. I am not trying to create something new, I’m trying to create the unknown; I simply paint and stare, paint and stare, paint and stare, paint and stare, and paint.
My paintings are a culmination of idea after idea, success, failure, struggle, and arrival all presented to the viewer on a piece of canvas. The experience of the painting's creation, of being a painter, is my subject matter.
I have no idea what the final image will be, I do have an aesthetic that I am striving for. I am not trying to create something new, I’m trying to create the unknown; I simply paint and stare, paint and stare, paint and stare, paint and stare, and paint.
My paintings are a culmination of idea after idea, success, failure, struggle, and arrival all presented to the viewer on a piece of canvas. The experience of the painting's creation, of being a painter, is my subject matter.
