Bruce Cheever

“I strive to evoke emotion in the sense of ‘place,’ and hope to convey a rich feeling of nostalgia for viewers by inspiring them to pay attention to the simple beauties of life.”

“I consciously use harmony, balance, repetition, and spontaneity as the anchors of my compositions. Each work is carefully planned and under gridded with age-old proportions of the golden mean and root divisions.”

“Every opportunity is taken to create shapes, I imagine it as a carving of positives and negatives. I use a layering of color, the ‘Building of Color’; as I call it. It gives me the ability to let the under painting do the work. Under painting sets the tone of each painting and each layer contributes to the final melding.