My Three Seasons (triptych)

'My Three Seasons, Triptych,' by Paul Medina, Mixed Media Painting

This 24" x 72" mixed media on canvas painting by Paul Medina is a triptych featuring a natural scene of branches with leaves reaching to the sky. Each canvas depicts a changing season indicated by red, green, or blue and the growth state of leaves on the each branch. The mixed media materials are acrylic painted paper, wood varnish, and oil varnish.

Oklahoma-born artist Paul Medina has been making art for over 40 years. He has always worked in a mixed media format, saying he was “much too restless” to be confined to any one medium. " Part of the joy of making art is the struggle through the unknown of materials and new tools. The main search of diverse mediums has been to find the right combination to express his concepts in the best possible way." - Paul Medina

His themes have remained constant through the years. Capturing human truths, the ether that binds us all in countless ways, has been the overriding goal of Medina’s work.

Through the late seventies and into the early nineties, Medina flourished as a gallery artist. He was represented throughout the United States doing many one and two person shows each year. Besides the many galleries that represented Medina over the years, he also exhibited at the Oklahoma Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, and the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

The early nineties were a crucial period for Medina as he took a break from the gallery business and concentrated on developing a more personal approach to art making and refining his craft. This period created a body of work that continues to this day. Each piece tries to encapsulate how the artist feels about the world and the subtle emotions that we all share.

Today, Medina continues to try new things, working with clay and wood and creates painting using acrylic paints and other mixed mediums. He keeps busy with numerous commissions and occasionally exhibits locally and in surrounding states.

Paul Medina is mainly of Spanish and French descent. Although not raised in the traditional ethnic heritage of his ancestors, his work, in many ways, reflects the artistic traditions of those cultures. He has spent his life learning of these cultures that have, without doubt, marked his work in striking way.