David Goyette is an award winning visual artist located in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada.
His work is influenced primarily from the New York school of abstract expressionism of the 1950's and 1960's, and the later practitioners of lyrical abstraction. He is an admirer of colour field abstraction and cites his influences as Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, James Brooks, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Theodoros Stamos and Gerhard Richter.
His work focuses on large scale acrylic abstract paintings that celebrate the drama of colour. David typically begins the creative process with a feeling for colour and a basic sense of composition. From that point on, the process is largely free form and it informs David as much as he does it.
artist statement
I create art as a method for the interpretation of the world about me. Presenting in abstract, I invite others to interpret not what they know, but what they don't know, bringing their own creativity to the experience of viewing and contemplating. I enjoy the sharing that results between creator and observer.
I find pleasure in the complex process that merges canvas, tools, paint, subject matter and time, and, in particular, in the visual play that is constructed between order and disorder. While my paintings do not present direct social commentary, they are intended to invite contemplation of the contradictions of daily experience.
I am inspired by a love of the confluence of composition and colour. Composition is my touchstone, grounded as it is in its fundamentals, whereas colour permits the seasonal, the momentary and the fanciful.
No art is fully unique. One aspect of the differentiation I offer is a work created, for the most part, without brush or knife. The choice of tools is intended to inspire not only creative artistry, but creative interpretation as well.
I see my pieces as part of a larger assembly of ongoing work. The creation of a thematic series of paintings provides for a comforting continuity in style on one hand, and an expression of individual uniqueness on the other.
