To some degree the viewer of a work of art becomes an artist by looking.
The work is co-created by participation. There is no mass audience in
painting, only you or I positioned before the work at a moment in time.
The viewer stands where the artist stood, even if the painting was made
thousands of miles or years away.
While being made, a painting forms two dimensions of the space occupied
by the artist. The artist – and then the viewer – provides the third
dimension. The intervening time and distance can vanish.
My goal is to make paintings which directly reach another individual. Any
valid work of art can prompt a change of attitude in the direction of more
life. I have experienced this from other artists, poets and dreamers who
make the future.
These pieces arose over the last 60 years in the effort to create spaces that
would be uplifting if shared.
A painting can provide far more space than it takes up.
Maker and viewer meet as creation and perception coincide. I treasure
having looked Rembrandt in his painted eye and perceived him looking back.
Intrinsic to art is a human spiritual presence, which can take infinite forms
and which I would share as shared with me.

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Nate Jessup