Artsy Shark presents painter Durand Seay as featured artist.  You can see more of his work, events coming up and gallery representation by visiting his website.

What are your goals?

My most precious goal is to always allow myself to let go relying on my inner self and freedom of expression. To remove myself from a material, cognitive, and objective frame of mind, will always be what engages a quality to my individuality.

The second goal is to gain acceptance and a following of buyers for the work I enjoy doing, the work that comes from my soul, the work that by its own nature is original and spontaneously creative. The art process is what makes love to me in the every nature of doing. How can anyone not be drawn to that passion. With this achieved, sales would allow me to retire to painting, drawing, photography, and jewelry.

What are you working on now?

I am presently working on two series. One of which are paintings which incorporate animals expressed as structures found in nature. Like the surface of a cantaloupe, or the structures of coral, or the structures found in seaweeds, all have an influence on how I form these images which evolve into the impressions or abstractions. The “Apollo Horse” and “The Presage” are two good examples. I started with horses since these are my symbols of individual freedom of spirit.

I have also moved into other improvisational structures that have no other relationship to an know object to express feelings of joy, as in “The Waltzing”, now showing in Ferarra Italy, at Trevisan Art International.  The second series I am working on comes from my love if photography. There is something in serendipity that is directly related to a spontaneity, you just have to know when to stop to take the picture. With these I will be creating limited edition giclee prints on canvas, signed and numbered. “Strident White” and “Tree Glyph” are two good examples.


What inspires you?

Nature will always provide a sense of wonder from the grand scale to the minute. As an architect who has a focus on building and designing, structures found in nature becomes a central focus. These types of elements will always be held as my symbols for balance, being in tune with a rhythm, and having a desire to engage the viewer to understand a higher connection. Even a wreath, wound of grape vines, woven to hold together established my primary motif for a line of jewelry I am have created. (I don’t have any pictures of those yet) The branches splay and return to hold sapphires within the weaving.

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