New paintings by Daniel Rona

In a time where even a blink of positivity counts as a win, I’ve continued to tell myself only way out is through painting. In these newest paintings, without deliberation, I am making marks that slowly shape the gesture of my form while following my train of thought to create compositions that feel discovered rather than constructed.

In this limited body of work, I escape through my paintings to build a world surrounded by color and curiosity that also feels somewhat familiar. I’m relying primarily on the human form as the prototypical model to reconstruct and imagine "icons" of my imagination that stand firmly planted in their world as symbols of creativity to remind myself to keep on exploring. The work is layered with texture, utilizing oil pastels as a drawing utensil and my intuition to guide each line of color. The backgrounds consist of unique land and sky-scapes painted from memories to plant the viewer in a position as if they stumbled upon them in the wild.