Irwin Thompson

My work is based on contemporary abstraction combined with occasional collages of photographic images. Each painting has many visual subtleties and complexities, layers and depths of medias and paints, leaving the history of the painting to be explored and experienced. The paintings are multi-layered assemblages of opaque and translucent paint, applied with brush, palette knife, sponge, finger and other. My intent is to find my way to a related expression of the thoughts and emotions derived from the work at hand and at the same time to connect with viewer. Accordingly, my painterly preoccupations are focused on both seeing and thinking.