About Me
- Rick Hamilton art
- These paintings are my story. the story behind each one is as important as the painting itself. My work captures the duality of hardness and softness in people. Don't trust happiness,but things will be alright. Using bold colors I lure the viewer into a story of brokeness,fear,and shame. My paintings are successful when they lure people out of a sleepwalk to say"yes, me too". For fifteen years I have painted compulsively and learned through doing how to better tell each story. I paint on wood so that I can work the colors hard using brushes or my hand. I sand through layers of paint to bring colors up from underneath. These paintings are for people who know darkness and appreciate the light.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
I will often change or paint over my work if I'm not happy with a piece. Sometimes I do that even after it is "finished" and hanging up. This shows a little evolution in this one. It was originally titled "At the Beach" I didn't like it. I changed the ball to a king's crown and wanted it to be like a king giving up his crown by dropping it. I changed he title to "The King you See". Still wasn't right. I took away the crown and put him in a different suit with googles and a swim cap. I also love the title so I kept that. Now I love it and it won a prize at Art in the Park,South Portland Maine! The King you See
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