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F.W. (Rick) Beesley
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Artist statement
I am drawn to art which speaks to the viewer's humanity, conveying a sense of experiential awareness. It may also evoke an emotional response. I am particularly interested in moods of curiosity, contemplation and serenity.
I tend toward realism, which I understand to involve the undoing of selected visual processing steps normally done unconsciously by an observer. A realist painting speaks niether directly to the eye (as photographs do) nor to the intellect (as symbols do), but instead to subconscious layers of visual experience somewhere in between. By doing this a painting can create a sense of experience, and thereby address nonvisual aspects of the mind including emotion and memory.
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Education
A variety of art classes in the middle Tennessee area since 1995, including Middle Tennessee State University, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, and Watkins College of Art & Design.
Experience
Began painting in 1986. After a long break returned to painting in 1994, taking classes in 1995 and continuing with individual work to the present. Current area of work is figurative oil paintings.
(Information last updated: 30 September 2009)
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