Chainman
Copyright © by Allen Forrest. All rights reserved.
Seattle: Fifth Avenue Traffic
Copyright © by Allen Forrest. All rights reserved.
Jazz Guitarist
Copyright © by Allen Forrest. All rights reserved.
Seattle: Skinner Building
Copyright © by Allen Forrest. All rights reserved.
Reader
Copyright © by Allen Forrest. All rights reserved.
Painting is a cross between a crap shoot, finding your way out of the woods, and
performing a magic act. Each time I begin to paint I feel like I am walking a
tightrope—sometimes scary, sometimes exciting, sometimes very quiet, and always,
always surprising; leading me where I never expected to go. Doing art makes me lose
all sense of time and place and go inside one long moment of creating. Whenever I feel
a painting in my gut, I know this is why I paint. The colors are the message; I feel
them before my mind has a chance to get involved. Color is the most agile and dynamic
medium to create joy. And if you can find joy in your art, then you’ve found
something worth holding on to.
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 24x24
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Born in Canada and raised in the United States, Allen Forrest works in many mediums:
oil painting, computer graphics, theater, digital music, film, and video. He studied
acting in the Columbia Pictures Talent Program in Los Angeles, and digital media
in art and design at Bellevue College (receiving degrees in Web Multimedia Authoring
and Digital Video Production.)
Forrest currently works in Vancouver, Canada, as a graphic artist and painter. He
is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University, and
his Bel Red painting series is part of the Bellevue College Foundation’s permanent
art collection. His expressive drawing and painting style is a mix of avant-garde
expressionism and post-Impressionist elements reminiscent of van Gogh, creating
emotion on canvas.
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