The Painting Process

In creating a painting, Rodgers waits and allows the subject matter to emerge. Dropping any preconceived ideas, the work may begin with a spontaneous drop, slash, or swirl. The painting becomes a journeying into the unknown fuelled with intense concentration. Its’ direction governed by the same creation style of lyric poetry. The culmination is a discovery, a cognitive jump as much for the artist as for those who truly see, experience, and understand the painting. He does not demand “this is so” nor preach to his audience. He expresses through his painting what has happened to him as a being and invites the viewer to participate in his discovery. For Rodgers, a painting is a diary or dialog that is given form. Every once in a while in that form a chord is struck, a realization that he has found something that he wishes to share with others.  
 

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