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Kent Bash -- I've decided in writing about the Automotive paintings, like the rest of my work, not give up their secrets, for example, like who the cars belong to, the locations of the nostalgic scenes, whether real or imagined, and their meanings. The viewer has a part to play in this. I've decided instead, to write about some of the things that crossed my mind at the time I was painting them. I tend to write my ideas down rather than to make sketches. So just about every painting has some text or notes somewhere. I write my Ideas down because when I create a painting I don't want to be doing it for the second time, or to be referring to some already stale drawing or sketch. Many artist like to make sketches, and then to slowly developed the idea into some final drawing to be transferred onto the canvas, redrawn and then to be painted. To me this is more like building something than painting. For me the whole Idea of painting is to go on the adventure/ journey and let it happen as I go. I want the Image to be new. An Idea can be interpreted a number of different ways, I decide as I'm doing it. It's a journey. As for myself the problem of working the painting all out before hand is not a problem, because I don't, this is the fun part of painting, this is what it is all about. This is why I write it down as verses sketching it. With my drawing I'm the same way, in fact I don't sketch at all, even in drawing, if I sit down to draw, I'll create finished art, that's just the way I am. Kent Bash copyright 2001