Stephen Douglas

Sartre tells us that existence precedes essence.  My paintngs are always about the evolution of whatever subject I choose; how they exist in the real world through the act of painting. That “existence” is as much about intuition as it is cognition.  I act as a middleman between the fact of paint, and the idea of painting, listening to the paint as much as I listen to my will to control it.  In doing so, I always attempt to align my work with the unique language of the medium of painting.  Something that only painting can do.