The plummeting stock market, falling housing prices, declining job security, rising national debt, corporate greed, environmental issues, war…. The Universe has issued a wake-up call. Life is calling us to come home to our authentic selves.
In this series, I explore the idea that despite sinister circumstances and hurricane-force winds of change, there is opportunity—an opportunity to stand in your power and become the full expression of all you are.
Randy Siegel
ARTIST STATEMENT
Some say Randy Siegel’s paintings are “postcards from the psyche.” Rich in symbols, Siegel’s work dives deep below the surface into the soul. He is influenced by the rawness of outsider art and the intimacy of portraiture, which he has collected for nearly thirty years.
“Like meditation, art helps the unconscious become conscious,” Siegel explains. "Art can be a form of self-discovery. Through art, the many aspects of Self come to light."
Siegel often paints over his older paintings. It’s not unusual for three of four paintings to be underneath the surface of a single piece. “Each story builds upon the previous story, not unlike the stories of our lives.”
An intuitive artist, rarely does Siegel begin a painting with an outcome in mind. "One color signals another, and one image invites a second, until the painting tells me, 'I am complete.’”
Randy Siegel has studied at the Chicago Art Institute, University of Georgia School of Art, Instituto Allende (San Miguel, Mexico), Naropa University, A-B Tech and River’s Edge Studio (both in Asheville, NC), and the Ringling School of Art. He and his Dalmatian, Lucy, live in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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