I have always worked with traditional materials – canvas, paper, paint, ink, etc. The basis of the surface sets up limitations from the outset. I find those limitations beneficial. If it’s oil paint and other materials on canvas, the materials set parameters within which I work. Next, each group of works starts with a concept. Nothing is tabula rasa. But what happens in the act of producing, of creating, takes on a life of its own. I have never produced a piece of art that looked like what I thought I was going to make. I have worked intentionally with my left hand at times, being a right-handed person, often placing strokes and lines backwards to override the penmanship I learned in school as a boy. Each work within a group has its own self-generated identity. Yet they all work together as in a conversation. Ironically, at the point they are completed, I have no expectation as to what they ‘say’ and wait to hear from others with their reactions. It’s then that I see what the works might be fully about.

Read Tris McCall’s insightful article about the recent work, P.E. Pinkman’s Pandemic Chronicle at Saint Peter’s Fine Art Gallery.

Read more about my process and work from Philip F. Clark, author of “The ArtPoint.”

P E Pinkman Jan 2022 art resume
Covering exhibitions, education, etc.