NURMI HUSA
ARTIST'S STATEMENT & BIO

The term digital art suggests something cold and technical
and I hope my work is anything but that. Much of what I do is
very painterly, unabashedly so, although I do not paint in any
traditional sense. My brush and oils are virtual -
they live inside my computer. I begin with, generally, a digital (or digitized) photograph,
then add other such images or bits of image as the inspiration takes me,
laboriously interweaving and manipulating them in Adobe Photoshop.
I complete my process with a rich texturing drawn from a mixture of
various natural and man-made sources. Rarely if ever do I leave an image
in a purely photographic state. When I'm finally ready to stop interfering
with the piece, I commit my work to paper in a numbered edition with
an Epson 2200 using archival papers and inks.

Although I come to the making of purely visual art after many years
as an actor, activist, writer and graphic artist - I have always
celebrated the visual - and in that of many different centuries
and cultures. I find my greatest joy, though, in feasting on the vast
and extraordinary banquet offered up by nineteenth century European artists.
But my inspiration is not limited to that extraordinary period - so like
our own. The Old Master, the Surrealist, the Constructivist and
the Symbolist - as well as that dreaded creature, the Academician,
inform my work. I revel in rich textures and strong images.
My palette is dark, both in color as well as subject matter,
and yet I am not without humor. And as always, the subtlety of expression
of which the human face is capable always moves me
(hence my portrait work). Words are often worked into my "canvases".

On the whole, I like a image that asks
a question, tells a story, slaps you upside the head or, sometimes,
jes' looks real purty.

















Please check out my visual art site and my design site!