About my painting

• I opted for the one-square-metre format because it’s the fundamental basis for all other measures, the unit at which thought begins and is liberated, in contrast to the arbitrary spaces that rule rectangles.
• I eliminated the frame, which was imposed much later than when the first murals appeared and which in time came to favour the surroundings and not the exhibit. A painting, like any work of art, calls for a frame – but only the wall it’s on, which should preferably be white, as if the wall were its passe-partout.
• In accordance with the teachings of some of the masters, I personally prepare and mount my raw canvasses to give them proper finishing around the edges.
• From early on my professional life involved publicity, decoration and the graphic arts in general and, later on, interior design. My tools have always been the pencil and the brush and my material has been, above all, paint. This is why even after so many years the painting emerges pulsating with strength.
• Why is it that I don’t paint figuratively if that was my background? I believe that geometry is sacred, and it pursues me. I am fascinated by spectral trichromacy in nature and its constantly self-renewing cycle. Cosmic forces reveal to me a spiritual world where objects and visible terrestrial forms are not present. The present phase of my artistic development reveals the will to find answers to questions that have accumulated over a long period of time.

Artur Jorge, 1989