Information provided by the Artist: Foad Satterfield’s professional career as an artist began in 1973 when he committed to painting. Throughout the years, he learned that making paintings is an ever-unfolding and expansive process, one that offers infinite possibilities for self-expression and limitless visual inventions. His work explores and incorporates ontological issues, specifically nature’s profundity and spiritual qualities. The material things he observes in nature and his imagination merge, and by using his chosen tools of brush and paint, quite powerfully, the invisible becomes visible. Through this path—critical examination, reflection, visualization, initiation, application, gestation, and culmination—his paintings become objects capable of creating their own highly charged aesthetic atmosphere. They also present an opportunity for viewers to simply be, and to use their interaction with the work as a catalyst for reflection and contemplation.