Richard Armstrong
January 23, 2010 by Richard Armstrong
Filed under Richard Armstrong
I suppose I began as a colorist, having had coloring book competitions against my cousin, Jim, with our grandfather as the judge, back in the mid-fifties.
Earlier in my career, I pursued the end result of a preconceived notion. Later, I found that intuition and the sub-conscious carries a deeper truth, as the Surrealists knew. What comes from the sub-conscious depth begins with a simple line or beginning movements of form, investing baraka — Spiritual Power – into inert material. Blending and weaving color, carving stone (moving with the grain, fissures, and color); sculpting clay by giving it direction and then following it; or fleshing out elementary gestures in drawings give rise to something living in the ether, waiting to manifest into conscious manipulation, supported by aesthetic sensibility and training.
