John Valois
I've come into the art world in a
roundabout way.
During my forty year career in the
academic world, including thirty-one
years as a psychology professor at the
University of San Diego, I always felt
'something' was missing in my life.
That something was the need for
creative visual expression. During the
60's and 70's I began painting using
oils and acrylics and whole new vistas
opened to me. Unfortunately, life with
its family and professional demands
interrupted those early explorations
and it was not till I retired that I
returned to the art world.
In the time interval a new age, the
digital, had begun and a new artistic
medium had developed in this
technological world. I found the
flexibility and range of possibilities
offered by the digital media to be
excellent means for expressing my long
buried creative feelings and ideas. I
also discovered that the artistic
process frequently lead me into
unforeseen areas with some surprising
and exciting results. The digital
camera, Photoshop and Painter have
become the artistic tools which help
me not only reflect the reality of the
moment but also realities as one would
re-imagine them, in short, creative
re-presentations of both worlds.
Ezra Pound once gave the definition of
an artistic image as an "intellectual
and emotional complex in an instant of
time". Much of my work results in
emotional-thought images which are
indeed time-captures of these
complexes.
John Valois's art on the Web
John Valois's AutoGallery exhibit