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Facebook: Artwork by Aaron Ulish
Medium- oil, palette knife, and impasto
Contemporary Impressionism and Texture Realism
7 years experience
Artist Statement:
“In the moment of emotional upheaval where the weight of love, fear, identity, and responsibility collided. In the absence of words, I turned to paint. When the brush felt too controlled, I chose knives.
Each piece is built, not brushed—layered in thick, expressive impasto using only palette knives. The result is a visceral blend of saturated color and raw texture. Architecture provides the bones—firm, familiar, structured. But between the lines of concrete, wild things grow. Florals and natural forms erupt through the rigidity, reminders that even within chaos, there is beauty, life, and softness.
These works live in a dichotomy, where opposites meet: chaos and control, hardness and softness, fragility and strength. They’re about fatherhood, but also about creation in all its forms—what is built, what breaks through, and what remains.
I hope you don’t just see it.
I hope you feel it.“
-Aaron Ulish
