WENDELL MYERS

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As a former potter, Wendell was interested in the spontaneous, the uncontrolled, the ‘happy accident.’  As a student and fan of Jazz, he was intrigued and thrilled by improvisation and the great things that can happen when self criticism, self doubt and fear are banished, and emotion, heart and creativity are given free rein. 

He enjoys the immediacy of painting; act now, get results now, and what you see is what you get, which is somewhat unlike the “delayed gratification” of working with clay. 

There is a sense in which one is both performer and audience; you act, observe the results of your actions, and react to those results.  He enjoys painting in this same spontaneous, improvisational way;  applying color to the surface, see what happens, respond with more color, see what emerges, and react to that.