George Woollard has been making his home in Hawaii since 1961. The islands are manifest in his interest in color, which reflects the tropical light and moods which permeate his environment. Hawaii engenders a robustness of character that is both fearless and tender. These are the qualities that George is searching for in his work.

A word about abstraction. As an artist that is equally committed to teaching and creating, George loves language. He looks at all art as essentially abstract. In other words, creation is linked to intention. Words are abstract symbols for intentions and so it is with images. Working abstractly involves the manipulation of symbols, which could be words but also any number of shapes, textures, colors, materials and so on. There is only one voice being expressed in a variety of languages.