Maine College of Art graduate, Jon Byrer has a degree in Fine Arts and Photography. He lives and works in Midcoast Maine. Jon creates fine art paintings, experimental photography, watercolor illustrations, ink drawings, collage, and plays and records music with multiple instruments.
As he aspires to bring his art to everybody in Maine, he has worked with many libraries throughout the state. 

Artist Statement
I do not touch the canvas to manipulate the paint in this innovative process. Art created with serendipitous puddles.

I start with the 5 colors: red, yellow, blue, black and white. I lay the canvas horizontally. Then I mix the different colors of paint slightly and pour them onto the flat canvas.

By pouring a puddle here and a puddle there, the vision of the landscape appears. The mixing marbled colors are frozen in place when dried, but maintain their swirling sense of movement. This technique reimagines how paintings are traditionally created without using an easel or paint brush or even touching the canvas.

Without any re-working or way to correct what is poured onto the canvas, the mixing of paint and pouring becomes a conversation with the paint. The
use of intuition only can be compared to a day-long jazz song. Each pouring cup of paint is a note of inspiration which creates the song as a whole.

The puddles of mixing swirling liquid paint emerge as familiar scenes of Maine’s splendor of the everyday.

My artistic vision reimagines how to paint and attempts to take the poured paint landscapes to my own place within the art world.

Thank you for looking at my work, and I hope you enjoy it

To learn more about Jon Byrer visit his website here.