I can say that for me, art is a passion. I experience all perceptions in the act of painting as a dynamic process in which the discovery of the meaning of the world is affirmed not only on the canvas but also in the relationship I establish with my subject and with myself.

Painting is my favorite form of play, it is also a meditation and my way into consciousness.

As I paint, I notice that the image of my subject goes through an oscillating process of being and becoming. It is my goal when painting to connect with my feelings and evoke in the viewer of the painting the same feelings, and the same desire to spontaneously create.

In developing a style of painting, I let my perceptions guide me through the cues I obtain from intuition and imagination and from the ever growing attunement of the medium I use (oils).

Ultimately, I think that “style” is anyone’s particular way of seeing, of signifying and of giving meaning. I very much enjoy going through a classical training that is influenced by impressionism, expressionism and abstract painting.

I’m always in wonder, surprised at the way in which unconscious perceptions find a way into the canvas allowing me to witness, as if a new person, an event or a mood, emerging from a deeper level demanding to be understood while being symbolized.

In the circuit of perceiving while being perceived there is a blending, where one becomes the other.

Rosalinda Taymor