Artist statement
There are times, when thinking about all the possible paintings and drawings that could be made, the boundless permutations, I feel like the volume in my brain gets turned on to full. I see painfully bright colors on the insides of my eyes flashing by at increasing speeds. Forms emerge only to mutate, spiral and collapse back into the maelstrom. Sitting in front of and staring endlessly at a blank canvas, paper or wall and visualizing hypothetical manifestations is a crucial part of my process. Then comes the transcendental moment of brush and paint hitting the blank surface and potential collapsing into actualization. Impulsively, some zone of interest catches my eye, my hand follows and from there the new form extends metabolically outwards into an infinite number of possible branches, references or relational structures. For me, painting is not exhausted, its history is just a grain of sand on the beach, and its potential is as wide open as the expanding universe.
-Leslie Bell 2009.
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