Art Shows at Rare Bird Coffee
Art in Photo by Michelle Wee at bluelarkdesigns.com
We appreciate creativity in many different facets, including the visual arts. Our café space was designed with the intention of sharing such art from local artists in a three month rotating art show to exhibit their work, bringing life to our walls and recognition to these very talented creators. We hope that you enjoy their work as much as we do when you visit us.
Now Showing
John Ballou
Warp and Weft
August 19 - November 17, 2024
"On a Walk"
Oil on Canvas, 2023
Artist Statement
Much of my recent work is in the form of 'landscapes' that grew, in as interesting a manner as I can devise, from how I use color and shape to suggest space.
I start each painting with a simple spray painted or drawn pattern. I like the way oil paint can be applied and textured, and I rely on my years as a rock drummer to blend with thousands of brushstrokes. Each composition begins to coalesce as paint is applied to or removed from the canvas. I spend weeks creating layers of image detail, especially anything that plays with visual distances or allows textures of earth, air, fire and water to work on and around plausible as well as improbable geometry.
I invite the viewer to visually travel about each canvas, up close here as well as digitally on my website, ballouworks.com. See my “Odds and Ends” page for GIF animations of my painting process.
Email: ballouj.ballouj@gmail.com
