ARTIST STATEMENT (Work + Process)

My work explores architectural space, trees, and figurative subjects as emotional portraits of place. I use structure such as rooms, facades, frameworks, and familiar objects not as documentation, but as a way to describe memory and mood. Color and negative space shape the atmosphere, allowing the subject to feel both present and slightly displaced.

My process is iterative, moving between drawing, painting, and printmaking. I begin with studies and reference material, test variations, and translate decisions into hand drawing and paint. In painting, line establishes structure while layered color fields shift the emotional temperature of the space. Cyanotype extends these ideas through positive and negative reversal and repetition, using multiple exposures to explore subtle compositional changes and how mood lives inside structure.

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BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Paul Kerrigan is a Jacksonville, Florida based artist and middle school art educator whose work explores architecture, trees, and figurative subjects as emotional portraits of place. Working across painting, drawing, and cyanotype, he combines recognizable structure with abstracted environments, using color and negative space to shape atmosphere and memory. His process is iterative, moving through cycles of studies, variations, and refinement across drawing, painting, and cyanotype. Kerrigan maintains an active studio practice alongside teaching visual art at River City Science Academy.