Kirk Buchanan

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Daniel Kirkland Buchanan is an artist and author living in Taos, New Mexico and Heath, Texas. 

“Working mainly with oils on canvas, I enjoy painting landscapes and other inspiring scenery in the alla prima method with impasto techniques in the abstract impressionism style. I prefer to paint what I feel when viewing a scene, not just what I see. I paint with the belief that artistic selection can overrule reality, if done with wisdom.

To me, art is not a product or a thing. Art is a process; a journey. It’s an experiment in the perception of the world around you. It’s your own unique perception that you share with another person. Art connects you with another person. That makes art personal.

True art includes the often uncomfortable action of putting it out there in the world for people to appreciate, criticize, or ignore. You can’t keep it to yourself and call it art. It must be shared. But once shared, each person who interacts with it has the right to love it, like it, hate it, despise it, be impressed or indifferent, intrigued or irritated. 

You’ve released it into the world. Whatever their perception, they’re not wrong. It’s their own unique perception of the world around them, just as the creation of it was yours.

Making art is a personal expression.

Perceiving art is a personal impression. 

Experiencing art? Well...that’s both.”