{"id":2060,"date":"2022-04-30T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=2060"},"modified":"2022-05-02T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:21:24","slug":"alan-crichton-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/alan-crichton-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Crichton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Artist’s Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I return to full-time painting and other art forms after 22 years of administrative arts work, I have enjoyed working in quite a small format\u2014five by seven inches watercolors on very roughly-textured, cold-pressed paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve enjoyed starting freely with color and brush, with no visual idea or image in mind, just letting the brush and strokes of color lead me. I\u2019ve loved the open-ended improvisation of this approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should add that the great Paul Klee has been a profound influence on me this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alan Crichton, Free Growth, <\/em>2021. <\/em>Watercolor on paper, 5 x 7 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe force that through the green fuse drives the flower,\u201d is the way Dylan Thomas put it. The surging, spinning forces of life intensity as the wonderful seasons of spring and summer develop\u2014these are the energies that appeared as I painted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alan Crichton, Sweet Dream, <\/em>2020.<\/em> Watercolor on paper, 5 x 7 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The robed figures are from a 17th-century cr\u00e8che I worked on once, and all the figures are part of the sweet, irrationality of the seated figure\u2019s dream, where Christ, madness, shamanic magic, and universal energies spill over the sleeper whose passivity belies his active internal imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alan Crichton, Maze, <\/em>2021. Watercolor on paper, 5 x 7 in.
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Life can actually be a maze where finding oneself is a great difficulty. If we can, we stand still and try to decide which path to take. Any path can be the right one, because it\u2019s not the path, it\u2019s what we do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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