As a self-taught artist, Casey aims to capture everyday moments on his island home of Maui. He works in a loose impressionistic style in oil on canvas and panel. Casey’s extraordinary skill with nuanced value and color was hard won through serious practice with color charts and rigorous study of mixing color. He is fascinated with how memory distills the visual, and he seeks for his paintings to do the same. What ever his subject, Casey’s work communicates his guiding principles of simplicity, truth, and beauty.
“Our memory has a way of simplifying things. It strips away thousands of details that at the time seemed major, and it leaves only the big outlines – the essence. I think a successful painting does the same, and I hope the viewer can see into the ‘soul’ of every one of my paintings and share with me the essence each painting is attempting to evoke.”
