Inspired by Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Edward Gorey, Chamillard’s illustrations make for a soothing, meditative effect. With a BFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Arizona, he operates a drawing and bookmaking studio in Tucson, AZ, where he has lived for eighteen years.

“I work during the day, so on weekdays I generally start drawing around 8 pm, and work for 2-3 hours,” he relayed in an interview with Faithwaites. “Weekends provide more daytime hours, and I draw quickly, so I’m able to produce a lot of finished work. I find it helpful to have small sketchbooks with me, so I can work out ideas and sketches if I’m on the phone at work, in a meeting, etc. This time also includes finding shows, preparing works for exhibition, documenting, etc.”

“I love making art,” he says, “so I find it easy to motivate myself – it’s something I always want more time to do. I also draw and make art every day, and I think that having a daily practice is a natural motivator, as well. I have a day job, and I’m a busy parent, so it’s not always easy, but for me, a lot of the drive to make art comes from the process of making art.”

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“Initially, I was working away from representation, taking images and source material and cropping them oddly, or splicing them into patterns,” recalled Perkins in an interview with Art of Choice. “Working through this process, I found that I was more interested in optical shape play, than necessarily questioning the image. I also found a more personal voice in abstraction that was less burdened by theory. And so from there the paintings began to slowly evolve away from image and towards abstraction.”

With bright colors a theme throughout his work, Perkins says that “color has always been a constant source of inspiration, as well as the unique space of a painting, as something that is flat, but has depth. That essential paradox has always been a great source of inspiration,” he says. “For me, the sublime and its shifting cultural definition has been theme in my work, tangentially or directly, for many years. I often think of my current work as attempting to describe impossible sublime forms. Forms that seduce and reward; hopefully inviting the viewer to linger long enough to slowly tease out their logic.”

Still, he admits that finding just the right colors is a slow process for him. “Most of my palettes start digitally: cropping, editing, distilling down colors from photos that I have taken, or gathered. I keep a running catalogue of source material, mostly digital these days, but occasionally physical,” he says. “By and large the images describe the natural world in some sense. Increasingly, I’ve been investigating color and light at night, nocturnes in a sense.”

Take a closer look at some of his geometrical paintings.

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Inspired by Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Edward Gorey, Chamillard’s illustrations make for a soothing, meditative effect. With a BFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Arizona, he operates a drawing and bookmaking studio in Tucson, AZ, where he has lived for eighteen years.

“I work during the day, so on weekdays I generally start drawing around 8 pm, and work for 2-3 hours,” he relayed in an interview with Faithwaites. “Weekends provide more daytime hours, and I draw quickly, so I’m able to produce a lot of finished work. I find it helpful to have small sketchbooks with me, so I can work out ideas and sketches if I’m on the phone at work, in a meeting, etc. This time also includes finding shows, preparing works for exhibition, documenting, etc.”

“I love making art,” he says, “so I find it easy to motivate myself – it’s something I always want more time to do. I also draw and make art every day, and I think that having a daily practice is a natural motivator, as well. I have a day job, and I’m a busy parent, so it’s not always easy, but for me, a lot of the drive to make art comes from the process of making art.”

Follow his Instagram page for more:

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“Initially, I was working away from representation, taking images and source material and cropping them oddly, or splicing them into patterns,” recalled Perkins in an interview with Art of Choice. “Working through this process, I found that I was more interested in optical shape play, than necessarily questioning the image. I also found a more personal voice in abstraction that was less burdened by theory. And so from there the paintings began to slowly evolve away from image and towards abstraction.”

With bright colors a theme throughout his work, Perkins says that “color has always been a constant source of inspiration, as well as the unique space of a painting, as something that is flat, but has depth. That essential paradox has always been a great source of inspiration,” he says. “For me, the sublime and its shifting cultural definition has been theme in my work, tangentially or directly, for many years. I often think of my current work as attempting to describe impossible sublime forms. Forms that seduce and reward; hopefully inviting the viewer to linger long enough to slowly tease out their logic.”

Still, he admits that finding just the right colors is a slow process for him. “Most of my palettes start digitally: cropping, editing, distilling down colors from photos that I have taken, or gathered. I keep a running catalogue of source material, mostly digital these days, but occasionally physical,” he says. “By and large the images describe the natural world in some sense. Increasingly, I’ve been investigating color and light at night, nocturnes in a sense.”

Take a closer look at some of his geometrical paintings.

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