Clear Impasto
Composed by hand. Painted entirely by hand.
I am called to help spread the gospel of Jesus Christ into the world by creating and sharing art that is inspired by Bible verses. I believe nothing is more powerful than God's Word to transform lives. Through my art, I am sending the invitation of God's Word to the world.
So is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:11
Clear Impasto is the way I bring a digital composition into the physical world as something you can feel.
My work is abstract. I never print the verse across the canvas. I want each painting to carry the feeling of the scripture and leave room for you to bring your own walk to it. That is why a guest stops in front of it and asks what it is. The question is the point.
Each one takes its place in a body of work I have been building since 2009. Here is how every one of them is made.
Every piece begins as a single, finalized digital file, composed by hand using the tools and materials of the studio. That file is printed in archival pigment on museum-grade canvas. This is where the color lives.
What follows is the real work. Using clear acrylic medium and a brush, I paint the entire surface by hand. I follow every contour of the image, building layers of texture until the whole canvas carries the dimension and presence of a painting. No color is added. The image already holds its color. What I add is the body, the brushwork, the relief, and the way light moves across the surface throughout the day.
Each canvas takes hours of deliberate brushwork, and because of that, no two are ever the same. There is only one. Each is its own unique work of art.
Composed by hand, finished by hand
The dimension a photograph cannot show
Watch the light move across the surface. That relief is acrylic, laid by hand, contour by contour.
Every Clear Impasto original takes its permanent number in the body of work and is never painted again.
Made once. Once it is collected, its number is retired with it. When a guest asks about it, you have the whole story to tell: an original abstract painting, finished entirely by hand, the only one, its number held in a body of work that is still being made.
The body of work is still growing, one painting at a time. If you would like to walk it with me, the prints carry the same verse home, and at VerseVoices we sit with the scripture together. The next number is still unpainted.