Michaele LeCompte
Artist Statement
What Matters to Me
I’m a color junkie – I can’t get enough of it. I collect color swatches like others collect rare artifacts. I think about color all the time. In recent years, I have eliminated imagery in favor of color – literal stripes of different hues, tones, and tints. What thrills me is the interaction, the placement of one color next to another. I love the way, stroke by stroke, I build a painting. I love the way the finished painting has visual weight and power beyond “mere” color – how the sum becomes greater than the parts. This transformation is the crux of why I keep painting – I never know what I will discover in the next painting!
