Linda Stojak

In painting, I examine my own life.

Through the specifics of my life, I hope to describe something about the nature of everyone's life. These paintings are about being born, separation, touching, breathing, dying, loss, time, silence, waiting.

I want to be concise stylistically, to keep images simple, suggestively spare and repetitive. I emphasize their emotional complexity through the painting process itself. For instance, I might convey an underlying tension by combining a static, restrained image with a layered, expressive surface.

I want to describe and evoke the anxiety that inevitably exists in living.