The lost thing found again after many years can feel familiar yet strange to anyone. This is how an artwork I have just finished feels to me. It is the connection I seek with my work. I paint pictures from my imagination using bright colors or graphic elements against visually accidental or age-distressed techniques. This presents my imagery as though from a far-off place or time, a memory or dream. Heightening the sense of the exotic and uncanny offers perspective. This serves as an access point for the viewer — a stepping stone to a recognition of shared consciousness.

Duncan Reid creates imagined paintings and contemporary artworks using oil, acrylic, or watercolor on hand assembled, hard panels often employing aging or distressing effects to his work. His work is inspired by an unconventional training. Reid’s parents were both artists who met at The Rhode Island School of Design, and he grew up around art and antiques. Though most of his art education comes from this, he has studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He has also been a graphic artist for more than 30 years, a profession that adds to the variety of techniques in his toolkit.

Reid currently lives and works in Norwood, Massachusetts.