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"I combine color, light and form to create rhythms that will speak to people and carry them on a journey of their own."
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Creative Process - Victor Kirton
Some collectors have expressed interest in the process by which my paintings are created. It is with pleasure that I attempt to give some information and insight into this process.
The seed of each painting comes in the observation of nature through the lens of the heart. I look more for the emotion of a setting than how it appears before my eyes. The landscape created can only be seen in the mind's eye, where inner emotion and the outside world merge into one. I then bend the rules of nature to speak with my heart, changing light, color, and forms, letting my imagination speak. This creates for me a view of how the soul is touched by the beauty in the world. It is most often in our dreams where our inner and outer worlds come together in this meaningful way. This process is an attempt to pull that world contained in dreams onto the canvas.
I often start my painting sessions trying to relax and meditate, letting what I have seen form into different scenes in my mind. I let emotion come to the surface more than exact details and then I try to convey that emotion on canvas. I liken it to the process of creating music. With music, different notes are combined together to form rhythms that bring people to different emotional places. As their emotions travel to different places, their thoughts follow and they experience, remember, and contemplate things that are meaningful to them. This is what I am trying to do when I am painting. I combine color, light and form to create rhythms that will speak to people and carry them on a journey of their own. Hopefully the journey will be a meaningful and insightful one. That is my prayer and aim.
I often listen to music while I work, to better help me find the rhythms I am trying to convey. Inspiration, I feel, is absolutely necessary in any creative process that means to be edifying. To this end, I keep my studio a place of serenity open to divine guidance. I generally start working at the top of the canvas and proceed down, letting things come to me as I paint. Trying to force the piece can get me in a lot of trouble, so I try to use patience and listen to the rhythms and guidance as they come.
I hope this has been helpful in shedding some light on the creative mindset behind these paintings.
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