I seem to have an insatiable appetite for finding out what makes creative people tick.    Tobias Tovera, a San Francisco artist is one of my new favorites.   Although Tobias and I have never met in person, we have shared ideas with each other over the past several months.    His work can be found at his website:  www.tobiastovera.com.     I am struck by the natural beauty of his work and the process in which he creates….

” I combine pigment and solvent which I pour onto mahogany wood panels. I pour horizontally to create pools of entropic development that transmute and diffuse into the surface. Based on evaporation, layered textures of color and space are formed. Each layer takes one-two hours to dry. The amount of layers applied is intuitive and the formal shape and chemical application is determined by the movement of the medium and its successive layers.”