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S. J. Cullen
- I'm a career artist from Tempe, Arizona and just recently have begun residence in Charlotte, North Carolina. Southwestern influences are obvious in these exercises in composition with the images chosen by an intuitive response to meet a need for color, shape, or contrast. For many years I have used wildlife images as elements in my art though I really have never viewed myself as a wildlife artist. The seemingly random objects from the man made environment were carefully selected to create the feeling of incongruence or, by surprise, a delicate balance of man intruding into nature.
Over the past couple of years, I have begun to view myself as an artist who has been affected by the devastating environmental destruction that our lifestyle and economy has imposed upon the earth. I believe that our cultural perception of the natural world has really been set askew. In my recent paintings I have been striving to create a greater sense of intimacy with my subject. I want to charge the audience with an emotion and nostalgia that creates in them a sense of responsibility and desire to value nature and man’s craftsmanship.
