Artist Statement
c.joe.burchfield@gmail.com
Essential Objectivity In Painting
as a Historical Modernist
Painting and the objective world combine with drawing and color to create a simultaneous awareness of feeling and subjectivity that unifies each work’s experience for the viewer. Drawing, color and the historic legacy of art are ideas that transfer observations into a meaningful viewpoint which arouse personal sensations about the world. Creating a record of interpreting these objective physical sensations in a painting provides me with the improvisational choices needed to drive innovation and change. This action lets invention be in the service of composition, forming a relation between drawing, color and observation.
Observation, representation, and perception equals creation, bringing together both the actual and one’s imagination. Understanding made out of drawing with color.
Why do I continue to paint scenes from the objective world? Because of the over whelming beauty of the world around us: people, places and things elicit this strong response to share this experience.
A sketch any time
is dandy and fine.
A drawing is great
with color and paint.
And stories are best
for dreaming the rest.
For me there's no
Drips, Drops, Doodles or Dribbles.
Spills, Smears, Scrawls or Scribbles.
It's where you draw the line.