David Ryan Lopez - Aurora

38 x 32in (98 x  x 81cm) - oil on canvas - done in 2007   Pour and flow paintings evolved over many years from florals to landscape to more abstract expression. Lopez was moved by the impressions he created but stymied by the limitations of the canvas' flat surface. He discovered a new way of working with the pour and flow technique while on a trip to Santa Fe, N.M., where he happened upon the work of an artist who taught him to manipulate the canvas in unexpected ways. He spent the next few months learning the method of lifting, folding and waving the canvas, applying layer upon layer of color, to perfect his visions with dizzying results. Pour and flow is a method of painting in which paint is poured onto the canvas and gravity helps create images without the use of a single paintbrush. His present pour and flow work was influenced by Paul Jenkins, a master pour and flow painter living in Paris, France.  Ryan says "I choose the title of each piece at the end of creation or the name