Chimeras

Paintings are elusive like chimeras. They invite complicity.

The artist communicates his own vision as he puts paint to canvas. Yet the viewer brings his individual experience to the interchange. Together, they create a rich, unspoken dialogue. Thus the image shares a new and very personal identity with each person who sees it.

There are thousands of paintings by some 750 worldwide artists on the Novica website. Their impact cuts across cultural boundaries and speaks a pure language of sensation.

I often wonder what the elephant artists intended to convey. Perhaps nothing more – and nothing less – than a very primal joy.