GRANT COLLIER

I paint people and landscapes, but they’re really just starting points. What I’m trying to get at is something less visible. My paintings often begin in the real world and drift into something closer to dreamscapes, a bit like how the poet Billy Collins describes starting in Kansas and ending in Oz. Beauty matters to me, but it’s not always polished. Sometimes it shows up in the strange, the quiet, or the unexpected. Like poetry says more than its words, I hope my images speak to something beyond what’s being shown.