M.R. MacDougall communicates concepts through painting rather than language due to a lack of vocabulary. They use large brushes and water-mixed paints or inks to capture the energy of movements in both living things and gestures on canvas. While paintings take a week to conceive, they are executed quickly in about an hour. Having studied in Japan after art school, M.R. MacDougall now seeks an environment with other painting peers to generate discussion and push their image-making abilities through hard work.

1. Artist Statement: M.R.MacDougall
I paint. I lack the vocabulary, the tools of language needed to relay difficult concepts
and need to create them in paint. If I could, I would be more than happy to write to
you.
Instead, I communicate what I think is truthful by using a large paintbrush and water-
mixed acrylic or inks to put a gesture down on a support. I am getting to a point
where I can consistently communicate the energy and vitality in both our movements
and those of other living things. Communicate that precise point where not painting
and just enough painting, meet.
These images should be considered carefully but executed quickly. A painting takes a
week or so to consider and only an hour at most to do. I started considering these
things on graduating from a BFA program and subsequent decade in Japan. I want to
be in an environment where my peers are painting and generating talk and energy as I
have been alone.
While unsure if this makes me Interdisciplinary, I am increasingly interested in
Kinesiology and martial-arts, describing how our bodies move. I intend to push my
own image-communicative abilities while engaged in a living network of artists. I
expect to work very hard and look forward to being pushed to hone my paintings.