ARTIST’S STATEMENT

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I don’t know what school of painting I am in or if any. It doesn’t matter to me because I have some talent for likeliness and I stick to that. And I find all my restlessness in life can be put into a composition on canvas or expressed in sculpture. 

I like all kinds of art meaning that which is produced esthetically, knowingly, or unknowingly. 

I have held onto my work until now (I have given several pictures away but never managed a show) never thought about making a living from it after attempting several times to break into the art market. 

I was enrolled in a life class at the YMCA in Springfield, Ill. at the time that they took my bros. and sisters under their control. The Children Service League, I think it was called. From then until now (70 yrs.) it has been mostly bad jobs, like everybody else and occasionally drawing and painting except now being retired and having built my own house to paint in I am free.

I have found that bad jobs can produce very good pictures. Don’t know what good jobs produce. 

October 2012 David L. Byrd