Gustel Foust
Master Post-Expressionist Painter

“There’s the important difference between tight and loose painting: Tight meticulous work can be copied – even a reasonably clever student can do it. But loose, spontaneous work is full of accident and inspiration. Great painting done in this manner can never be duplicated – The painter him/herself does not know how he/she got some of his/her effects.  All he/she knows is that he/she was outdoors (or indoors) when something happened to him/her. He/she saw differences; he/she felt the shadows and the textures and put them down on the canvas.  Such painters see their pictures even before they begin them, as if in a dream.  The subject hit them hard.  When they finish, the picture is better than nature, but never as good as it was in their mind’s eye.  They worry about it, but they also know it is hard to achieve perfection,  There is never and end to things. It’s like the universe:  Where do the stars end and heaven begin?” 

Emile A. Gruppe

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