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Obert Fittje
oils on canvas & photography

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Florida Artist:

Obert Fittje
6970 Grenville Road
Tallahassee,FL 32309
850 894-0860

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Although I did photography and kept sketch books all of my adult life, I am now a retired forensic psychologist who only seriously took up painting and photography three years ago. I quickly realized that what I was painting were the icons of my own personal mythology.

In addition to the mythology given to us by our culture, we all have a personal mythology of the expressions, images and experiences which are most meaningful to us. Some of us have richer and more elaborate personal mythologies than others. Mine is influenced by a lifetime of studying the spiritual tradition of mankind which includes both Eastern and Western religious traditions. That is why many of my paintings have Christ-like and Buddha-like images and monks and angels and flowers, especially lotuses.

My painting is also influenced by working as a psychologist for twenty years. I am trained in the use of projective techniques in which a person is shown purposely vague images, such as in the Rorschach Inkblots, and the observer makes of it what he or she will. I make an image within the framework of my personal mythology and whatever meaning it has to anyone else is determined by the observer in the act of observing one of my paintings. These personal icons are not something "realistic" or something actually out there in the material world. I, therefore, do not spend a lot of time trying to make my paintings look realistic or representational; they are purposely vague and dream-like.

I do not go outside to the "real" cognitive-perceptual-sensory world to find the subjects of my paintings, but rather I paint inside using what flows from my imagination and the images that come to me from my own personal mythology. An image comes to my mind from the reservoir of this personal mythology and I begin painting that image and it takes on a life of its own. Most of my completed paintings have a religious or spiritual theme, as befits a personal spiritual mythology.

I am basically trying to achieve paintings that are beautiful, simple and mysterious. My paintings are usually very difficult to photograph given the impasto and the sheen caused by many thick layers of oil paint. Most of them reflect light quite differently as one walks past them. This is also fitting as they reflect the ever-shifting images rising up from a personal mythology that float through my imagination.

My photography is much simpler as it mainly focuses on light and shadows moving across the subjects which are usually flowers and groups of people or simple portraits. - Obert Fittje

Obert Fittje oils on canvas & photography

Florida Artist:

Obert Fittje
oils on canvas & photography