Sarcoma

By Jim Bertolacini

I live in Madison Wisconsin. I paint abstracts almost exclusively because I love the feeling of spontaneous creativity, where I can produce something interesting and imaginative in the moment. My approach is stream of consciousness...I don’t really know what the painting is going to look like until it’s finished. I rarely start out with a specific concept and I just allow my mood and internal thoughts to develop the imagery as I go. One of the quirks of my painting style is that I lost my left index finger to cancer in 2019, and since I’m left-handed, I feel like this just adds to the eccentric nature of what I like to create.