Jonathan Chapline

www.jonathanchapline.com
​Quotes from an interview with The Coastal Post. 

"The portraits are not so easy to represent and inherently pose different problems. They are the opposite of the landscapes in the lack of simplicity therefore becomes funny or awkward in trying to describe it in this flat language. That hand should never look that way or be described that way if you are trying to describe a hand; they are like these sausage things. The same with the lips, they become these tube shapes. To me that’s what makes it funny."

"I consciously push [the flatness in the paintings] as far as it can go."