Ok, there's no doubt about it. I have become mildly OBSESSED with artists as of late. I just find them so inspiring and unlike many interior designers, SOOOO under-appreciated. With TV shows like Top Design, ANYTHING on HGTV and Trading Spaces, interior design has had its share of the spotlight. It's time for the artists to shine.



Meet Ian Bissonnette, an artist who graduated from Skidmore College, NY with a B.S. in Fine Arts and a Mathematics Minor. He earned the Jesse Solomon Painting award during his education at NY in 2000 and now resides in Sutton, Quebec.



He writes, "I am not an exceptional writer or speaker. Nor do I believe I can provide a simple generation of my work, since I think of each project separately. Thus, I offer a few excerpts from a group of essays titled 'Art Objects', by Jeanette Winterson:"

"It is sometimes necessary to be silent for months before the central image of a [painting] can occur. I do not [paint] every day, I read every day, think every day, work in the garden every day, and recognize in nature the same slow complicity. The same inevitability. The moment will arrive, always it does, it can be predicted but it cannot be demanded. I do not think of this as inspiration. I think of this as readiness. A [painter] lives in a constant state of readiness. For me, the fragments of the image I seek are stellar, they beguile me, as stars do, I seek to describe them, to interpret them, but I can not possess them, they are too far away."



I love it, I love it, I love it. Thank you, artists, for inspiring us [err, readying us] daily.

To see more of Ian's work, click here.