Bio

My name is Blake Baines.  Nice to meet you.  

I am a painter born and raised in North Carolina, currently living in Central Virginia.  I paint primarily in oils and like to use color interactions, variation in edge, and compositional structure to explore the overlap of three-dimensional illusion and two-dimensional design.  I believe that in my best work those two worlds co-exist on the same surface.

My educational background has one foot in the analytical pursuits of science and math and the other in studio art.  This forms the foundation of my approach to painting.  My work pairs a loose and intuitive approach to handling the paint with a calculated process of planning and laying out the compositional scaffolding of a piece.  It is the tension between these two phases of my process that creates interesting results that keep me coming back to learn what the next piece has to teach me.

bbaines@blakebainesart.com