Artist Statement

Gero Eaton

Through the use of color, line, and form, I strive to create timeless pieces of beauty that invoke our innate vulnerability. I want to engage my viewers and submerse them within the art, taking them on a powerful journey through their collective subconscious with pictorial language that shows how human emotion plays out in our daily lives. I want my audience to feel a broad range of emotion when viewing my paintings, and to share those experiences with the world around them. Utilizing broad strokes, thick lines, and bold shapes, I delve into the human mind and create a landscape of limitless wonder and curiosity, coming out the other end with the desire for the audience to feel as though they are reborn in understanding of who they are within themselves.  

I want to create a universal body of work that will unite my viewers in an experience that transcends their individual experiences and sparks intellectual debate of the universal effect of technological growth and globalization in the modern era. Language has changed as a result of humanity’s evolution, and emojis have become a powerful and unifying language of their own when expressing human emotion.  I enjoy using bright, saturated colors in conjunction with strong geometric shapes or the drip method inspired by Jackson Pollock as a backdrop for the vivid emoji expressions we use on daily basis to communicate in hopes of creating a sense of depth and wonder in my work.  The artist has a powerful ability to influence the viewers’ thoughts and feelings through a piece of work.  I want to use that power in a positive way and inspire joy and delight in my viewers.