

My work has often been, on some level, about space. Even in the earliest and most illusionistic, I was thinking about how shapes, objects, colors were arranged in relation to one another. Most start in a sketchbook, and go through several drawing phases. This is one of the abstractions from my last show, and the earliest sketchbook version of a large painting I did a few years back. Even as they develop, the paintings usually maintain some of my initial thumbnail impulses. -Ridley Howard, 2012