Geer Morton
Artist Statement
My painting is the result of seeing things I care about and wanting to capture them. As a kid in the country, I often spent my free time drawing and painting. It seemed like a natural extension of an isolated farm life. Later, as a young man, I wanted to make important paintings from important issues, in line with social realism and the war-time art I’d seen. But those ideas didn’t fit comfortably in my hand, and learning to instead use the simple themes of my life was a bittersweet process of acceptance.
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