About me, the Artist
S. W. PAUL WYSZKOWSKI

Let me set one thing straight right off the bat: the "S. W." in my name stands for Stanislaw Wladyslaw. "Wyszkowski" is spelled out in the Polish alphabet which, unfortunately, looks like the English but isn't. Spelled out phonetically in the English alphabet it would be "Vishkofski" with the stress on "kof". Now that we have that out of the way, we can proceed.

I call myself an inventor and discoverer of images. In varying proportions all my images are in part invented and in part discovered. My artistic life is played out in that middle ground between perfect order and absolute chaos where the infinite possibilities of pattern, design and structure arise. My mind deeply appreciates the right balance between order and chaos that is the basis of beauty. It is chaos and unpredictability that make art and life fascinating and ever surprising.

I believe that a successful work of art is one which evokes in the mind of the viewer something of that aspect of the experience of being human which we cannot explain to ourselves in scientific or even philosophical terms. Like our appreciation of grace and beauty, our capacity for wonder and joy, and our sense of humor. In that sense, a work of art is akin to a religious experience.

Much of my work involves digital manipulation of images. Sometimes my paintings are informed by original digital images. Many of my digital images are derived from original paintings. In any case, to me it is always the resulting image, what meets the eye and the mind that matters, not how I arrived at it, however interesting that may have been.