My work explores the interplay of pattern, personal history, and the natural world. Each piece is a culmination of years of accumulated paint, a record of my artistic journey. I build thick palettes, layer upon layer, allowing time and chance to dictate the final texture and color. These palettes become a microcosm of my own unique geological history, a record of my artistic evolution. I treat my painted history, my autobiography in pigment, as a quarry. From this rich, layered source, I extract slices, revealing hidden patterns and unexpected color combinations, rebuilding them with a sculptural concept firmly in mind. These slices, seemingly repetitive, are in fact unique and unrepeatable. Each one holds a fragment of the past, a ghost of a previous painting, a memory embedded within the paint itself. My work is a meditation on the cyclical nature of time, the constant flux of creation and destruction. It is an invitation to contemplate the beauty of the imperfect, the organic, and the inherently unpredictable. I am not simply painting; I am excavating, sculpting, and ultimately, resurrecting my own artistic past into something entirely new.

Name Of Artist (So You Are Searchable!)

Dan McKay

Exact Dimensions

9x12x.5 in.

Year Created

2025

Provide details about the signature

Signed on the back. There is also a paint stamp.

Materials

oil paint and enamel