ARTIST STATEMENT Twenty years ago I became interested in the idea of painting as an improvised performance. I had grown dissatisfied with making work that was fully conceived at the beginning, worked out through studies and sketches, and then executed onto canvas. Something important was missing. I began to make paintings with no formulated plan. I let the images emerge slowly or quickly out of the painting process itself. I began playing with color, line, texture and shape. I embraced uncertainty as an essential element of creating. My painting process is fluid and organic. I constantly make changes throughout the creation of a piece. I have no philosophy of painting other than to be open and responsive to the possibilities of the moment. Connecting with the present and finding the potential- this is what my work is about. BIO Bradley Wilson was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1970. He is a visual artist and author who makes paintings, drawings and prints, He teaches studio art and art history part-time at Lee University, Dalton State College, and conducts regular painting workshops at a variety of venues. He resides with my wife, and a multitude of dogs and cats in Charleston, TN.