Mike Boyer's work is an evocative act of communication.
His paintings exist as a collaborationbetween the suggestiveness of the titles, his personal intentions and original attractionto the image then ultimately what the viewer brings to this from their own psychology, history and understanding. All interprestations afre valid and poetic.
His paintings exist in realms of half remembered states. Glimpses of self linger dreamlike; fragmented and puzzling. These curious parallel worlds are seeped in dark and light reflections with complex layers of narrative. The shadow present in his paintings are ultimately infused with hope and illuminate the eternal possibility of choice. Images have an uncanny, mercurial quality and in their intention to capture some fleeting moment they become simultaneously an echo of what has passed and a promise of what is to come. They are stories of transition.
Playing with the idea that life and artistic creation are an unfinsihed journey, inevitably the painting process begins to mirror and give form to the experience of memory, imagination and being alive.
