Artist Statement

I make Art because I need to – which may sound pretty childish or banal – but I think that’s appropriate and necessary. Art can be so utterly devoid of any logical point and yet be so compelling – it’s like gaining something right or known in the visceral. Art mirrors, deflects and embodies this seriously “funny” way of being and knowing that we have. In my work there is a purposeful ordering and chaos, correction and mistake, darkness and levity. There is a need to be lost in order to find. The subjects within my work engage in this in some way.

I’ve tried to write hundreds of these… and each time I do it comes out different.  Art is the same.

James Lyle