Artworks by Adam Bogusz

I paint Australian landscapes, though they are really invented ones. They usually begin by accident. I pour the paint and let it find its own shapes, then cut into the sky and follow what is there, working fearlessly through to the smallest detail. That fearlessness is the whole thing for me. The cockatoos arrived and stayed, and now they fill these worlds along with small figures going about their lives, cycling, fishing, sitting at the top of a hill watching the day.

I am drawn to the mystery of being alive, and I think the paintings are my way of circling that without ever quite explaining it. Alan Watts and Terence McKenna shaped how I see it, and I have always loved artists who bent the rules, Bowie, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Prince. I work in acrylic on board. I did not learn creativity so much as remember it, and painting still feels like play rather than work.