• I am an abstract painter. My goals are to create a visual experience that has meaning and will question what meaning is in paint.

  • My practice is fundamentally a studio practice. Things from the world, the subjects and objects that are interesting to me, I bring into the studio to inspire my paintings. The results are pictures that reflect these concerns through the materiality of paint and compositional forms. The paintings will return into the world to become more things.

  • I work with various subjects that tend to form into thematic groups or clusters. The list of subject matter includes interpretations of cultural and media images, domestic interiors and scenes, variations of paintings from western art history and miscellaneous found images. All of which provoke in me contemplation and a desire to keep looking.

  • I work with a variety of subject matter to insure that the work be about painting not subject. The subjects are a departure point for making paintings. The meaning comes from within the paint and material. All meaning should be vague; the clarity resides in the paint.

  • My ambitions are color, line, form, pictorial space and the psychology of truth.

  • William Staples