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Wey
info@dreamsofthespirit.com
www.dreamsofthespirit.com
My name is Wey. This is a very old French name, thanks to my ancestors, and it makes a great three letter signature on any canvas without being too obvious!
I have been painting and selling my work since the age of 14. For my very first large public show, at that age, I exhibited a very small abstract, a true forerunner of the surreal or illusionary abstracts that I am doing now.
I work in a variety of styles because I don’t like to restrict myself to any one expression. Each piece depends on the subject and on my emotions, and is created according to what my very psyche is seeing and absorbing. I try to go beyond the limits of my interpretation of dreams, visions or the essence of my feelings.
I feel deeply about what I am expressing and I must be moved to create any painting, be it a landscape, cityscape, animals, people, or the abstracts which I have been extremely compelled to do for the last several years.
When I was younger I had a need to shout or even scream from the canvas. Now my abstracts come to me like a song or piece of music. I want to engage the observer with a sense of jazz in one hand and dreamy tone poems in the other. Being a former dancer, I strive to express this visual music on the canvas in the way the dancer responds to music – through rhythmical movement.
Abstract art can be confusing, forceful and disturbing. Many dismiss it off-hand. It demands more time and effort from the viewer before a true appreciation can be realized. The true essence of any kind of art is that unique expression that only the artist can see through his own individual heart, mind, and soul. It is that reality, that passion that we experience when looking at a great work of art. Anyone can learn to be technically correct and copy from the world what their eye sees, but without passion, and deep individual expression, there can be no real art.
I am not impressed by a résumé and I don't understand what a listing of one's past shows and gallery exhibits really proves. To me, the important thing is what one is doing now and where you will be going next.
My education began in Indianapolis, then to Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Miami, and finally Los Angeles. I have done many shows, galleries, and commissions. Otis Parsons, UCLA, various schools, institutes, and teachers, however I basically consider myself “self taught”. One of the greatest teachers I ever had was a truly great artist. He told me this story: this artist and his best friend in art school met again after 30 years. After much discussion, they both ardently agreed that the best and most they had ever learned was what they had taught themselves. So far, this is exactly the way I feel. I will continue to be a student of life until the day I die. The more I create, the more I learn and the more I am able to give of myself and my soul to the world through paint on canvas.
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist