Michael Fenton’s Gallery

Michael Fenton’s Gallery

Fine Art by Michael S. Fenton

Thank you for visiting this website to experience some of my work. The pictures above were taken at the Alfa Art Gallery gala opening on January 30, 2008. If you are interested feel free to contact me via email at mikefenton@verizon.net or visit the Alfa Art Gallery in New Bruswick, N.J.

Artist's Statement
I prefer creating impressions and telling a little story over strict realism but sometimes I really want to capture a unique attitude. I try to create interesting views of random thoughts or images. As a result of this, a reviewer once called my work “a representational-narrative art who wants, more than anything, to tell a story or communicate an attitude about the subject and evoke an emotional reaction.” I guess that’s pretty accurate.
Most of my work comes from a combination of personal experience and emotional connection to a subject. I believe in the power of art to tell a story and to communicate attitudes, ideas and emotions and to create discussion. I believe that underneath today’s superficial world there is a slipstream of truth found in the emotions of people and their circumstances. I want to integrate these things to create a story in a picture.
Painting is my response to what I feel when I look around. The visual response is not always immediate. Sometimes images, colors and feelings stored away from long ago will push their way to the surface. Other times visual ideas will emerge from unexpected sources and relationships. The process is never quite the same and this helps me to keep a “fresh eye.”
I find that my paintings often have a will of their own and there are always surprises to build on, and taking advantage of them is part of the fun in painting.
Oscar Wilde said, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” Think about that.

Michael S. Fenton

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