Working to the Zone: Doug Palmer

Artist Statement:

I do not do realism. I have done that. I find it fun inventing shapes, textures, patterns, colors using nature as a starting place. Consequently, I see the environment differently than most people. You can see it too. If you look and SEE. Most of my paintings are of places I have been, experiences I have had there. I use acrylic paint in different ways – thinning it gives me a watercolor effect allowing me to apply it in a fluid and transparent way and applying it thickly so that I can create areas of opaque impasto texture. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website