Richard Opper

Butte

Painting is healing. To observe a scene for its colors, values, and shapes is to see things in a new way. It helps strip away the judgements, preconceived notions, or biases I may want to project onto it. Painting requires me to see the subject for what it is rather than for what I might expect it to be.  In that sense, it’s a way to get me closer to the truth and to observe more deeply the beauty that surrounds me - beauty I might have otherwise missed.