Toby Mercer
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Altitude Gallery proudly represents Toby Mercer from Kalispell, Montana.
Read on to learn about the artist's inspiration and artistic journey.
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Artist Bio
Created in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, Toby Mercer’s art is sought by those with discerning taste all over the world.
After working for a decade in paint media, photography, ceramics, and jewelry, Toby created his own original 3 dimensional medium, the Stratagraphic. Paper Stratagraphics are original works using layers of cotton rag museum boards that are designed, cut, painted, and stacked entirely by hand in a process that carefully engineers the image one layer at a time, using only visualization and simple hand tools to create the finished work.
The concentration required is a lengthy meditation. These works exhibit a visual shift with a change in lighting direction or intensity, and/or with a change of viewpoint, giving them a kinetic, or living form.
Toby’s purpose in his artistic expression lies within the single accomplishment of evoking personal response within a beholder, knowing that within that response lies the opportunity of a heightened experience, increasing the potential for personal observation, growth, and joy.
Toby’s inspirations for visual and musical artistic expression are found in active attentions focused on noticing the living experience sensually, psychically, and intellectually and relating those observations in images and melodic expression that seek to capture the beholder’s attention and elicit some personal response therein.
The effort in creating a piece is an effort of love and awareness, truly individual and dramatic, affording an individual presence to every completed work.
As of November 2019, 1370 original Paper Stratagraphic works completed, are found in corporate, public, and private collections worldwide. Nearly four decades of artistic endeavor have perfected Toby’s ability to share his perception of awareness, based in wonder and rooted in emotion.
