| Biography: San Francisco artist Charles Kruger, an oblate of Incarnation Benedictine Monastery, has been a schoolteacher, actor and published poet who surprised himself when he began painting shortly after his 50th birthday. He has since created a dynamic body of work in an expressionist style.
Mr. Kruger utilizes shamanic practice and meditation in creating both large and small canvasses depicting interior landscapes and spirit helpers. He is a student of Todd Brown of the Red Poppy Art House, and a member of The Art Explosion Studios and ArtSpan.
Artist's Statement: My work is rooted in the concept of "not knowing". It is informed by spiritual practices of meditation, shamanic healing, and Benedictine monasticism.
To start the process of a painting, I utilize an evolving vocabulary of drips, marks in charcoal, washes, glazes, collage and textures. In this way, the surface is broken up until it calls out for healing. In responding to that call, I strive to organize the material into a coherent whole which is almost always abstract, while including suggestions of landscape or figure. The finished painting of an interior emotional landscape will often include animals or persons whom I understand to be spiritual guides.
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