Question:

What is the question you have always wanted to be asked about your artwork?

Answer:

Ideally there are no questions. I want the viewer to enjoy looking at the painting. Their internal reactions are their own. Questions that can be answered from outside the image do not interest me that much. It breaks the concentration from image back into language. So much of interaction is already language.

Woden, oil on carved oak, 32×28″, 2015

Storm Study, ink and marker on paper, 2009

The Lion’s Heart, oil on carved plywood, 74×48″, 2015

One Question/One Answer is a series of very, very brief conversations about art and life between Romanov Grave and a variety of extraordinarily interesting artists.