Three by Three: Guest Artists in Focus

QUESTION 2.    Many of your works contain dreamlike forms of nature, animals, and humans. How do these shifting figures emerge during your process, and do they carry symbolic meaning for you?

• ANSWER 2.    Nature, humans, and animals are no doubt my focus of interest in life, so it's inevitable that they always find their way into my work. There are lots of layers of thought that go into my pieces. For me it's all about taking my personal experiences and bringing them abstractly into many more universal topics. I never paint a photo likeness of my favorite mountain hike that week but I love to paint bits and pieces of it. How it made me feel and how the bigger picture can connect to it. When I put animals directly into the mountains, I'm commenting on the harmony they have found with nature. When I give form to more non physical elements, I'm touching upon the reality of the soul behind all things. Etc etc.
  
  Artwork: The Owls of Everest: when harmony is found, even mountains can take flight.

Adam Colombo
Painter, Digital Artist, Clothing Maker

MEDIUM: acrylic paint, oil paint, inks, dye work, sewing, transfer printing, digital design

BIO: A native of the beautiful Hudson Valley New York mountains, my work explores the threshold between the real and the surreal, using oil, acrylic, and expressive color to transform nature’s animals, forests, and figures into dreamlike encounters. Rooted in Fine Arts training, my paintings invite viewers into spaces where the familiar shifts into the uncanny, revealing beauty in the unexpected.

My practice extends into wearable art, reimagining original canvases as immersive all-over print garments. Through Creature Comforts Clothing, I bring a whimsical cast of characters—like Gabe the owl-penguin and the Weirder Wolfpack—to life, making pieces that spark connection and curiosity.

I also work in sewing, patchwork, and hand-dyed textiles, crafting one-of-a-kind designs that blend painting, color, and texture. Across mediums, my goal is to make work that captivates, comforts, and invites collectors into a vibrant, mysterious world where imagination leads the way.

INSTAGRAM: @AdamColomboArt

QUESTION 3.    As someone who works in both traditional oils/acrylics and digital art, how do you maintain a consistent artistic identity across mediums with such different qualities?

• ANSWER 3.     The way I handle digital art has always made it easy for me to maintain a consistent identity. I take original 2d works I make by hand and then give them revision/new life on the computer. So I see technology as a way to enhance my already wonderful 2dimensional work. I would say it's very important to me to maintain the handmade. Which of course would make it fair to say that mostly every way ai is being used in the creative arts is nothing short of blasphemous.
  
  Artwork:  Eroded Perspective:  sift through the layers to find understanding; everything is energy

QUESTION 1.    Your paintings blend surreal abstraction with bold, color-saturated emotion—what draws you to create worlds where reality and fantasy interweave so fluidly?

• ANSWER 1.     I have always had a very vivid and endlessly moving imagination. From a young age it was dying to come out of me. I expressed it through singing, acting and landed favorably on visual art. Being able to make use of such an active imagination has always felt like a gift. I can't really imagine not doing it. I have a very emotional spirit dying to communicate in every way it can think of.
  
  Artwork:  A Growing Obsession: keep going, keep growing, keep building.

The Owls of Everest, oil paint, 32 x 36 inches

Eroded Perspective, mixed-media, print sizes variable

A Growing Obsession, oil paint, 42 x 36 inches

All copyright and reproduction rights are reserved by Adam Colombo.
Artwork may not be reproduced in any form without the artist's express written permission.

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