Joan Cullen

From the artist:  Philosophy and travel have been constants in my pictorial research but it was during a long séjour in rural France that I learned the exotic character of everyday life. Painting and drawing have become a means of attaining a quality of attention that seems to go underneath language and ground it.

One elects oneself to do this work and then it must be assumed. Certain works (“Bangkok”, “Entre Montréal et Québec”) name the places that are at once the landmarks of a permanent exile and the subject itself; others (“Champ aux marmottes”, “Hillsborough River”) wrestle with the desire to approach or even get inside the subject.

Against formulas and like violence, I propose with Paul Klee an endless study of the nature of nature ...

Select images:  HERE          Books with Dominique Cruchet on Blurb:   HERE       Cullen+Cruchet Blog:  HERE