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Kent Estey
May 2022 - Featured Artist - Kent Estey
Kent Estey
I have always been somewhat of a landscape artist. When I was in school my go-to pieces were always landscape, and I’ve never have done any figurative paintings, they just didn’t appeal to me. I paint reflections of colors and pieces of time, dreams, feelings, calm and sometimes broad motions and movement. I look to the sky, I look across the lake, I peer into the water. Those are the places of inspiration. There will be this flash of light or color in the sky that says “that needs to be painted”. That is my inspiration.
Most times these images are painted in an abstract way, with little or no forethought, beyond the colors and direction or movement of the brushes. For most of my life I’ve painted with oils. It wasn’t until recently that I moved to acrylics. Now that I have used them, I am really enjoying them. I have a fondness for high flow acrylics, inks and metallics. Most recently I’ve added another dimension to my work with copper wire, pieces of hardware and stone. I find these pieces can start a conversation about representation vs it is what it is. I like when people ask, “What is it”….I usually respond with “What do you see?”
Debwewin - Truth, by Kent Estey
