Phillip Timper Fine Art

Artist’s Statement Since an early age my life has centered around art and the drive to create it. I believe the aesthetic experience occurs in a personal moment when the viewer sees art. I create images for that moment. Oil Paint and Watercolor had always been my choice of media to reflect the outer world, however now fast computing capabilities provide the tools to render my vibrant inner world. Today, my ‘tradigital’ work is abstract surreal, employing traditional mixed media implemented with the benefit of digital technology. I enjoy a freestyle approach to the use of media; I orchestrate the visual components using a variety of techniques. By scanning painted and drawn media into pixels, I manipulate and integrate the imagery with digital painting, drawing and 3-D sculpting. I work heart and mind devoted to the final abstract surreal image. I’ve heard it said the artist has a responsibility to be a mirror for the society in which he lives. The hectic and chaotic, even manic, nature of modern life can be perceived as overwhelming. The artwork I create presents an arrangement of colorful elements that express emotions and aspirations that are given form by this chaos. Those elements are vaguely flitting representational shapes and symbols from that place between the dream state and psychosis.