The style, the materials I use and the influences from other artists as well as my own thoughts on how to go and grow further have always made 

contributions to my work.  Some tried once or twice and then abandoned and others evolved into applications that

outlasted all others and were met with approbation and I dare say, commercial acceptance.  

It's a hard thing to do and be good at.  Painting.  Not just paint on a canvas, but something that I believe in and 

stand behind and ask acknowledgment for.  In the beginning, I had one hundred ideas of what to put on the canvas

and 98 of them were stillborn.  Fifty years later, I do not regret all the many weak and unpolished compositions as 

the repetition of the act  of painting proved invaluable in honing my own unique style.  Now, I have five or six ideas

and all of them are solid with no regrets.  It is just taken alot of years to get good at it, like it is with anything you set

your mind to.   I suppose that is my reward and my raison d' etre to go back into the studio and start a new work 

tomorrow without it feeling like a job or the studio as a prison.  Being an artist is a lonely vocation.  Nothing comes

easy, but I love it.  I can do a hundred things but this is what I do best.

 

Cole Morgan

Antwerp, Belgium

17 April, 2025