Ed Gorham – Artist Statement
I have always been fascinated with water and the creatures that live in it. I usually start by covering the canvas with a dark color. Any white in the finished work will not be gesso, but put in later where the composition needs it. Then using enamel paint, I apply several colors, each thinned to a different viscosity, and tilt and roll the canvas guiding the colors as they meet, mix and create their own lines and designs. Thus, in my work, the process of putting paint on the canvas mirrors the movement of the water my creatures are going to inhabit. The finished work look as though the paint is still flowing. Next, I coax the creatures of this background out with brushes and pallet knives, some of them realistic, some fantastic. Multiple layers of paint allow some creatures to be nearer, clearer and more detailed and some to be more part of the background – amorphous, illusionary and ambiguous. The viewer can even find that different images are possible at the same spot and can become involved in an exploration of the work to any degree, at and distance, at any angle.
I also offer extensive creative experience and proven design concepts. Combining original graphics and computer technology to transform clients ideas into unique image for print and web.
Recent Paintings
703 Echoes of a Whipered Past
504 Pisces Bones
577 Which Way Up
578 China Blue
590 SAVING THE PEARL
594 MARCHING SAINTS
595 TURQUOISE MANDARIN
597 BLUE DEVIL
604 ELEVENTH HOUR
615 Circle of Goldfish
625 SHELL OF THE SUN
629 ANEMONE HUGERS
642 One of the Wild Ones
644 A Koi of the Realm is Sweet Face
651 Home In The Water
659 Being Kio With Attitude
660 Flirting in Good Faith
661 The Seas Whispered Past
667 Embrace and Hold the Moment
670 Goby Chop
684 Why Not_#3337
686 Consenting Fourth Equus
688 Bring the Season Home
697 DANCE IN THE SOUTHERN FIRE AGATE SEA – ZAPP
698 BLUE TURTLE
699 Goby Gotcha
702 WING IT
303 First Clown Fish
402 Seeing Green
412 Wave Dancer
442 Downunder Red
485 Blue Eyes TWO
505 A fin to Remember
506 Sinuous Sea
514 Turning Tide
530 CRAB NEBULA
534 PUFFER LOVE
540 Change is a Fools Name for Fate
541 Blue Scales
543 Ocean Dragon
545 GATHERING OF LIONS
548 Oscars of the Wild
550 An Angel of Sang Real
558 Left Side of Yellow
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