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Robert Selkowitz - Artist Statement

I am a landscape painter and I paint what I see. When I see something that strikes me as beautiful, that inspires a feeling of excitement through my eyes, that’s what I want to paint. My paintings and drawings convey the experience of nature and the landscape to inspire both stimulation and tranquility by embodying an emotional reality of rejuvenation.

For me, creating a painting is a combination of heart and mind. I have to fall in love with the Beauty of what I am seeing, and also need to see the emerging composition, the strategy for making a painting from this initial vision. For me, the alchemy of my art is the instilling of life in the work, which is felt by the viewer.

My paintings emerge out of a growing intimacy with the landscape. They are a celebration of the Catskill Mountains and Cape Breton Island through a series of illuminated personal experiences with the landscape.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the satisfaction we experience in Beauty’s presence is felt in the heart, mind and spirit.