Artist Bio.

Troy Forbush was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1982. Troy has always shown an natural aptitude for art and music and recently has focused his lifelong creative enthusiasm  into visual arts. He works primarily in oil paint but also enjoys screen printing, and digital art and design. He began his pursuit to become a professional artist in early 2014 after taking a classes at SLCC, and winning president’s choice (2014) in the SLCC President’s Art Show. Troy can be found working from his studio B4 in Poor Yorick studios.

Inspiration

inspiration: it's what you're waiting for. what are you waiting for? .. in the morning when your dreams are fresh and vivid, in the night when you can feel your parallel self existing in alternate dimensions exploring the inner most reaches of their/your fantastic terrors and thrills. inspiration is a spot light flashed upon your perfected and completed mental vision that you and only you know exactly how to create. this is fleeting, and you may dismiss this vision, (a crime against your own pursuit of creativity) and ultimately your finer character and identity. although you will now have a somewhat fluid, flighty and inverse image of your perfect creation burned into your mind's eye, pleading to be real tangible visible audible and in this world of physicality. You must act.

In my experience of painting there is an element of reaching or searching looking for a hidden sentiment or subtext beneath my own conscious perception. As a painter it feels like discovery, the process of revealing as I press forward and as a place layers on surface I feel as though I'm revealing new layers of my own self. I find inspiration for this in many different observations.

I want to have a connection to my subject but I don't want to trap myself in my own sentimentality so I am constantly pushing myself to go beyond my own self belief in what I see.

As a plan for a new piece I form a conception of what may seem to me as a practical course of action for form, depth, color, and placement. This will allmost always be challenged as I proceed. This process is constantly demanding evolution and innovation only allowable with my willingness to be patient with the dichotomy of action, as it seems I must not allow myself to be fully possessed by either my in initial intention or by the questions that will arise and beg for my evolving.

Sometimes it's been that I have taken the more stylistic approach to realism as a way to explore my own methods for realizing paintings. I don't necessarily feel the need to adhere to any one genera as it may impede avenues of my growth as an artist.

In sharing and showing my art I hope it may be for me away of taking a glance in a larger mirror and experiencing my work through more critical perspective, And will hopefully allow for my greater advancementas an artist. Please enjoy.