Artist: Colby A. Sanford
Bio: Colby A. Sanford is a figurative realist painter with a passion for finding poetry in the prosaic. Growing up in an unconventional home, he was encouraged to paint on the walls of his bedroom and later lived in a yurt. His most precious moments are spent at home with his wife and three daughters, often baking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Sanford paints in his home at the base of the mountains in Provo, Utah - often in the living room and occasionally in his basement studio. He paints using a restricted acrylic palette on wooden panels, as he works to highlight the beauty in the mundane. Many works are paired with short-form poetry that serve to further parse the extraordinary from the commonplace of everyday life.
Title: We Carry Each Other, I'm Just Taking My Turn
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Unframed dimensions: 50 x 56 inches
Framed dimensions: 52 ½ x 58 ½ inches
Price: $14,450
Artist Statement:
Thank you.
For all this hoopla and hullabaloo.
And for bringing me new places,
For showing me new views.
For loving the parts of me that are
So easy to see right through
And the other parts that are
Hopeless and parts that are taboo.
When your insides are a rainstorm
I will hold your soggy soul,
And let it float here with me
In our own makeshift canoe.
And we will live here in this place
Where we can both take in the blue
Turning pink, orange, red
And purple, too.
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