Artist Statement

My materials are vast.  I don’t like limitations.  Anything goes in my studio…if it makes a mark, I will use it.  

I draw inspiration from most that is naïve.  Children are, hands down, the best artists.  Their freedom and uninhibited nature taps into that certain energy which all mature artists seek their entire lives.  Urban nature, street art, things old, vintage, warn-out, discarded, natural beauty in its abstract form and simply the moment, the moment of creation – where one move inspires the next.  One has to only open his eyes…..beauty is everywhere.

The process is essential.  I work in the moment. In my experience, a planned painting is a failed painting.  The painting must be free to wander.  The best works are those that seem to simply happen.

About The Artist

Michael Cutlip is a full-time, working artist living in Berkeley CA, with his wife Akiko and their two children Sumi and Luca.

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