Edward Huner

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artist statement

I like to think I paint ideas not just objects or things.

I am a figurative artist working primarily in oils on canvas but working extensively in drawing as well. I do not paint from the model preferring to work from multiple studio drawings. This approach offers me fewer constraints in compositional arrangements and rendering specific to my conceptual intent.

My interest in representational imagery lies between perception and recognition. I arbitrate among disparate ideas into sharing fixed spaces and visual relationships. I search for a fulcrum, perhaps a point of paradox, between that which is united and understood and that which is divided and misunderstood – points of observation and expectation. The narratives are inconclusive. The viewer is expected to reconcile the images with metaphors relating to their own life experiences.

The realism that I’m after is the tension between selection and truth – what it is and what it pretends to be. In terms of what my process is and what it is not, I can suggest that my choices are selective rather than inclusive; indefinite rather than precise and provocative rather than explanatory.