“My painting practice is experimental and grounded in the materiality of paint itself, along with the sensation of color. As I paint, I intentionally create moments of chance and choice, responding to each new development with another action, all while referencing internal memories, thoughts and emotions connected to my experience of the world. At the same time, I need each painting to be a new experience in its own right; something that takes me on a journey and leaves me feeling like I just walked out of a movie theater after a film. I want surprises, tensions, and resolutions. I want to feel exhausted but elated at the end of the process. I want to get lost and then stand back and behold the souvenir, the finished painting.
I typically begin my paintings on water-soaked raw canvas, creating watercolor-like effects that set the mood without locking me into anything prematurely. Some of the initial phase will be visible in the end, because I like to look at the finished painting and see how it began; see the history of the painting within itself. Subsequent layers of organic forms and nuanced color relationships build up, creating spatial dimensions reminiscent of landscape. The resulting imagery serves as a personalized visual language in which universal themes emerge, including mortality, rebirth, chaos, and solitude.
In our contemporary world of virtual reality and artificial intelligence, I continue to choose the physical act of painting as a vital way to process human experience, center myself, and seek clarity. I have been painting since I was a young child. It is part of my being. My attraction to painting has always been based on how it makes me feel, and how it connects me to the world and to other people. In short, painting is a way of being present and appreciating life.”
Quinton Bemiller
July 2026
I typically begin my paintings on water-soaked raw canvas, creating watercolor-like effects that set the mood without locking me into anything prematurely. Some of the initial phase will be visible in the end, because I like to look at the finished painting and see how it began; see the history of the painting within itself. Subsequent layers of organic forms and nuanced color relationships build up, creating spatial dimensions reminiscent of landscape. The resulting imagery serves as a personalized visual language in which universal themes emerge, including mortality, rebirth, chaos, and solitude.
In our contemporary world of virtual reality and artificial intelligence, I continue to choose the physical act of painting as a vital way to process human experience, center myself, and seek clarity. I have been painting since I was a young child. It is part of my being. My attraction to painting has always been based on how it makes me feel, and how it connects me to the world and to other people. In short, painting is a way of being present and appreciating life.”
Quinton Bemiller
July 2026