Ernest Ochsner | Assurity Life Insurance

“Capturing with words, the nature and significance of what I do as an artist, is an unsettling exercise since words fix thoughts in time and can return to haunt you later in life. My work has evolved as have my perceptions of reality and the role of the artist in society.  The abstract and expressionistic experiments of the 1960s and ’70s have slowly, at times painfully, given way to my present interest in landscape painting.  Everything I do is grounded in the past experiments but not restricted by them. The nature of my work has always been reflective of my search for meaning and purpose, a spiritual quest. The significance then of my art is connected to its ability to be successful both as a catalyst and signpost in this search.

There is an endless variety of possibilities, metaphors and wisdoms inherent in the natural and agricultural landscapes around us.  The abstract and the concrete mingle in a constant interplay of light, color, line and form, generating and endless source of images, ideas and meanings. Here I’m able to seek endlessly, without weariness or repetition, and ask for no more.”