Staccato Rain
Michael Flohr, 2003

“There is a flow that I try to keep in my paintings that evolves into a story of colors and movement that breathe together. A coronation of small, square strokes of premeditated color create the rhythm throughout a piece. Then I combine them with broad brush strokes that serve to ‘marry’ the elements together. I approach each canvas with ‘aggressive subtleness’. My goal as a modern impressionist is to capture a gesture and a mood, not necessarily every pore on the face of a person depicted in one of my paintings. I want my figures to be a part of the painting, not the painting itself. They work together in the environment creating the movement and emotion in a piece. I like to show light and how it travels, where it lands and how it can change color. Light alone can change the look or the mood of a place.”  ~ Michael Flohr

Permission granted by Shaffer Fine Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon