For me, the act of painting and the paintings themselves exist as one and the same. They engage our imaginations and emotions. They are sensuous. Though we may dress them in words, they need no explanation.   

My picture-making utilizes oil paint, mineral spirits, linseed oil, pencils, inks and collage. It’s made on canvas, paper, mat board, and wood panels and uses brushes, palette knives, rags and sandpaper. 

The developing image provides impulses which influence its composing.
There is no plan. We may be enlivened and nourished by a completed painting.
I am grateful for all of this.

Doug Trump              Marlboro  VT     May 2026

Graced by both spontaneity and a passion for subtlety, Trump’s paintings are simultaneously active and cerebral;  they douse the viewer in energy and reflection. Like most of his work, DROP ZONE, is composed of layers of paint and tension and time. There are words and drawings…..covered over with collaged elements and the spontaneous convergence of so many brushstrokes and trancelike energy. As he attempts to unravel life’s mysteries, Trump creates landscapes that carry the viewer into a timeless reality.

                                                                                        Trinkett Clark (1951 - 2006)
                                                                                               Curator of American Art
                                                                                               Mead Art Museum Amherst College