Lincoln Howard

Country: Canada

I was born in Vancouver BC on February 23 1970. Even though I came to my art practice late in life ,I feel I've always looked at the world through an artists eyes. My main artistic influences were and are the abstract expressionists .I especially admire the dramatic ominous works of Clifford Still. You look at his work and you can feel the drama and a feeling of power from his jagged images. Jackson Pollock is another influence especially his drip paintings. There is so much going on in his works but they seem to make sense, they come together perfectly. I want to try and exude some of their qualities in my paintings. My works to this point are mainly non representational but I want the viewers to have some sort of emotional response. I want them to come up with their own interpretation of what the paintings mean. I have two fundamental things I like to incorporate into my paintings. One is a grid ,the bottom layer of the majority of my works incorporate a grid pattern. I don't know why I use the grid but it just happened and I've used it ever since. The other thing I use in the paintings is a paste. The paste sits on top of the paintings and gives the work texture and depth a 3D type of effect. My mantra for my art practice is I'm always striving to push the boundaries and limits of abstraction.

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