http://www.terryrodgers.com/paintings/ghosts_of_liberation
"Terry Rodgers, "The Ghosts of Liberation"| 2010 | 178cm x 213cm | oil on linen. In my paintings, I attempt to reflect my sense of the times we are living in, both how richly interesting they are and how difficult it is for most of us to navigate their uncharted waters. The scenes are imagined, but I use real people as reference to work from. The process often begins with seeing someone whose expressive possibilities strike me. I stop people in restaurants, on the street, in clubs—wherever I find individuals whose faces suggest both beauty and inner depth—arrange to photograph them. Then I wrestle with various photos to see which might “speak” to each other. By playing with them on the computer and drawing them I finally work out the designs. After resolving a design, I draw it out on the canvas; my underpainting roughs in the colors in acrylic, and then with the oil on linen." -www.terryrodgers.com
