Essentially
self-taught, I combine my observations of life and the contents
of uncounted art texts and impressions gained from visits
to galleries and museums, with imagination. After experimenting
with various techniques, mediums and materials, adopting,
adapting and discarding, I find oils and acrylics to be
my favorites.
I
am actively pursuing my life-long love affair with art and
satisfying the ache to share my personal impressions of
desert vistas, tranquil seas lit by the setting sun, the
sense of an oncoming storm, the temper of the cat, the arrogance
of the eagle, and the menace of the predator.
I
am fascinated with the differences in the perception of
a vista or a flower or a person in differing conditions:
clear sunlight, shade, a cloudy day, a lifting mist, dawn
and dusk. I look across a field to a copse of trees and
see twenty shades of green created by variations in sunlight
filtering through leaves, reflecting off blades of grass
and refracting through the minute droplets of moisture into
prisms of color. I look at the clouds and wonder at the
rainbow of hues and constantly changing forms from a solid
mass to a wisp. I stand on a bluff and see the jewel tones
of stark promontories against an electric sky. I stand on
a pier extending into the sea and see transparency and depth,
power, constant motion and serenity; a juxtaposition of
water mass and sky, the universe and me. I see a bird and
am awed by the delicacy of a feather.
I
feel a deep need to communicate and share this ever-changing
complexity, this kaleidoscope of color and light, this infinite
variety of strength, delicacy and function in every natural
form. I paint because I must.
--Doni Kendig
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