Child Bathing
Jason Botkin graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design in 1996. Since 2002, Jason has been working in Montreal, where he is actively pursuing his exploration of drawing and painting. His artistic community spans Canada, including Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, and in New York. He continues to foster his national and cross-national dialogues, aided and rewarded greatly by extensive travel throughout Canada and the US. His other works can be seen at: www.jasonbotkin.com. All the works are charcoal on vellum.
ARTIST STATEMENT
A drawing is generous in a way few other art forms are; it invites the viewer to engage in a very intimate and immediate way, not only with it but also with the artist who created it. That, ultimately, is my attraction to the medium.
The concept of memory fascinates me, with it's ability to alter even our most basic and 'rational' perceptions within our environments. My son's favorite pig, the water in the bath, a friend's face, the floor boards in a certain room, are all details from my life. They are banal in subject matter, familiar to most, yet charged with emotional energy and meaning as they are distilled through the many layered filters of memory and subsequent association.
Drawing in this way is a vehicle for me to physically and mentally approach a personal history, one which when viewed by others, engenders a shared human meaning. A reaction to our media-saturated contemporary society, each detail becomes a drawn 'hyper-reality'.
Such an exploration is timely as our world struggles to explore individual and shared definitions of humanity. My drawings study how our actions and quite literally, our touch, define us--giving meaning to the simple act of being human in a specific time and place.
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All images © Jason Botkin
More information about Jason can be found at: www.jasonbotkin.com
