Artists Statement: My works are challenging to me on many levels as I seek a balance between organic formation and painterly construct. If I sense that it is not clean whether my work was formed from heat, air, water, or a painted expression, then I feel that the piece is a success. My intention is to find a natural sense of existence that is void of overt narrative or implied suggestions. I want the atmosphere around my work to vibrate with energy and balance.

Organic Expressionism is a succinct way to describe my process. I start with a clear acrylic panel and apply heat, air, water, brush, and pigment in reverse order to create my paintings. In reverse glass painting, the artist works from the foreground to the background with the initial strokes being the most imperative and the final being of very little consequence— the inverse of a canvas.

By engaging forms of interlaced ovals, linear movements, arcs, and fields on color, I seek to produce a unique visual expression in each painting. As a botanist who crosses variance orchids to create a beautiful new strain, I fuse various applications and forms to evolve my paintings. In the end, I paint to create a strong aesthetically engaging presence that evokes a calm excitement of natural beauty.

— Christopher Martin