Reed Hearne/Photo Expressionism
Photography is not my principal aim but it is my primary tool.
I collect color, texture and design in my viewfinder from subjects that are often ordinary. Mental labels associated with the objects are discarded to form a digital painting that becomes its own subject. As Monet said, “To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”
I hope to uncover what is beautiful, intriguing, contemplative and singular behind the mundane. Because true art springs always from its history, I never lose sight of the masters who sought to forge new frames of reference.
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Practice sense perceptions without the compulsive need to name things. — Eckhart Tolle
I don’t express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. — Mark Rothko
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture. — Piet Mondrian
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art. — Paul Cezanne
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“I like to think of what I do as a “hint” of how miraculous every moment could be if we were ever fully present to experience it.” – Reed Hearne
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