Aaron Whitehouse was born in 1975 in Terre Haute Indiana.Aaron grew up in the Atlanta Metro area and after graduating from Georgia State University with a degree in Film and Video he enrolled for one year at Southern Seminary in Columbia South Carolina where he realized creativity was his gift and vowed to follow wherever it lead in life.After several years of travelingand living in many different areas in the U.S. (Maui, Santa Barbara, Key Largo, New York) Aaron decided to return to the Atlanta areafor one purpose: to further his artistic development.He apprenticed under renowned Atlanta artist Joseph Guay and from there decided to experiment with a variety of different mediums and found his niche in resin based works.
"I was drawn to using resin because of the depth it can create in a piece; being a person who is drawn to contemplation and other forms of communication that translate "from deep to deep",it seemed resin helped unlock that expressionwithin my art.I try not to use any form at all in my work (except photography) in order to translate just raw feeling and emotion; to me its the equivalent of speech without actual words.Much more like base sounds and expressions, which I always found to be more powerful than words anyways."
Editor's note: We apologize that Aaron's paintings don't reproduce as well in photography. Interestingly, the resin process which is so unique to Aaron's work and gives it the depth, contrast and complexity, actually works against photography because it reflects the light off the surface. If you can, we encourage you to come and see (and touch) these paintings in person!
