Alan Taylor Jeffries

 

Although I have had a lifelong interest in art, I only started to paint in 2008. I am self-taught. My work is influenced by traditional Abstract Expressionism and Neo-expressionism. I work primarily in oils.

I agree with the critic who once said that a painting does not have to be "about" anything other than the process of its own creation. I am also guided by two quotes.  The first is from Jean-Michel Basquiat: “I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life.”  The second is from Chuck Close: " Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work."

 

I never begin with a plan or image in mind. I simply start applying paint to canvas until something interesting happens. Then that “something” suggests the next thing, and the next, and so on, until a kind of internal logic emerges which I then attempt to follow. I never know what the finished product will be, so I would characterize each painting as a visual record of the interplay between randomness and control.

 

I am represented by:

 

The George Gallery, 50 Bogard St., Charleston, South Carolina, USA (http://georgegalleryart.com/)

 

The Gregg Irby Gallery, 996 Huff Rd NW D Atlanta, Georgia, USA (http://greggirbygallery.com/)

 

Contemporain Bankston/Adams Gallery, 1010 Nicholson Dr., Suite B, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (http://contemporaingallery.com/)