Gene Beecher 1909-2002

Gene Beecher

His approach to painting is intuitive and inductive…unplanned and serendipitous. With no particular image in mind, he starts each painting by choosing a color that he paints on the surface as an abstract form or gesture. He selects another color and creates another form. Slowly the intention of the painting presents itself to him and he makes meaning out of the randomness As he has said, “The paintings just come out.”

As for imagery, the majority of the paintings are about what be calls his “unseen friends. ” He also says that his paintings remind him of his dreams. His method (intuitive/inductive) accesses the areas of his right brain where dreaming occurs. In this way, his paintings are about his dreams.

“. . . his work has a more distinctive modernist edge to it– agitated, crowded with often disturbed figures and activity. It’s an expression style, conveying turmoil and emotion through a palette of distortion in color and shape”

Bill Swislow in “The Florida Connection”
Intuit, Vol IV, Is 1, Summer 1995