William Crump

There were a very few specific works by Monet I saw in Paris last summer while at the Musée d’Orsay. Namely, his paintings of the Rouen Cathedral. Those pieces had a huge impact on me from the start. As I approached my painting last year, I had those pieces in mind. It’s hard to get a sense of how powerful those works are from one jpeg, but standing in front of them, they looks as if they were painted yesterday. I wanted to steal as much as I could from that experience. My work I’ve included here attempts to capture something of that same spirit. –William Crump, 2013