Bio
Calvin Bergen is an abstract painter from Abbotsford, BC. He is interested in the material possibilities of paint and continually seeks new ways of experimenting with abstraction.
Statement
I view my abstract paintings like maps, but not in the representational sense; rather, in the sense that maps are, to a degree, abstractions of place. Painting is a process of mind-mapping, of tracing out an inner landscape, where thoughts and feelings are given coordinates on the canvas, and brushstrokes act as desire paths.