Edwin McGowan
Raised in the 50’s and 60’s by working class parents I was taught to be honest, compassionate, loyal, and instilled with a strong work ethic. I apply those lessons to developing art practice. In my time I have witnessed a world steadily picking up pace where today I see a world running so fast it cannot catch up with itself and stumbling. Creating art with a relevant message is a path to understand daily stresses and anxieties individuals experience navigating such a world. My creative process is exhausting, but it is a satisfying exhaustion and surprisingly cathartic. I am happy to do it.
Art finds its own path; carrying me on to a conclusion where the outcome can be quite different than initially perceived. I pay attention to detail and often experiment. The work is slow, careful, and methodical requiring patience and focus. As a student I cannot say I have developed art practice, but I exercise necessary skills in building creative muscle needed to establish a solid practice. My goal is to maintain the freedom necessary to explore stories in any fashion, believing each story has an optimum visual formula of expression through materials and mediums.