Bob Wood

Bob Wood Artist Video

I’ve always liked art. In school I would sit in the library and page through art books and in college hang out in the art building, but it never occurred to me to make art myself. I couldn’t draw, but came to painting quite by accident later in life while modeling “risk taking” with writing students. I got liberal encouragement from wife Sandra, an art teacher and artist.

I always know exactly what I want to do in a painting: not to show the surface scenery but the forces underneath the surface. I’m not trying to paint the way a thing looks, but the way it is…to render reality more forcefully and provide a shortcut to sensation.

I have never taken an art class; I’d rather find my own way.

I like to use house paint and some artist’s acrylics on canvas and make large pieces—usually 40X40 or thereabouts. Painting is often a struggle since I look for help from chance and happy accident. Lady luck is fickle, but that’s the game the way I play it.

Someone once described my paintings as “Basquait and Dubuffet crash into a Pennsylvania Dutch village.” I like that.

Bob and Sandy Wood Interview, Studio B, Boyertown, PA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXpgOP93eqQ&t=8s