I’ve been highly imaginative and creative from my childhood to the present. I express myself through painting, pen & ink and drawing, music (performing and recording), woodworking, photography, and more… My decades as an artist, musician, craftsman and tradesman are a reflection of that creativity. I use many forms to express myself, but it is all the same creative energy.
My artistic aesthetic has been realized, honed and refined through a lifetime of keen observation, study, introspection, contemplation, and real-world hands-on experience. The works I produce are a marriage of my physical being, my soul, my spirit and the materials at my disposal in the physical world.
All these elements have forged a depth of maturity in me and in my work. I’ve come to terms with my gifting, accepted it, and fully embrace it. I don’t say this out of ego, vain conceit or vanity. Simply put, it is an inescapable part of me – as natural, as essential, as necessary to me as breathing. Like everyone, I have struggles. But I find meaning and purpose in every aspect of creating. One footstep followed by the next… It is a continuum– a work in the hands of one greater than me, who will present me a finished masterwork in due course.
©2023 Christopher Duncan