“It’s like fireworks exploded with paint brushes as they went down the sky!” Esch Snoats.

My work is a manifestation of my belief in freedom, diversity and hope. I believe in a world culture where everyone is accepted and considered equal. Unfortunately, though, I do know that we live in a world where people are judged and stereotyped based on labels and appearance. I believe that my art works to cut through these labels by connecting people and communicating on an emotional level.

I am the type of person who is always looking… looking for shapes, colors, expression in everything around me.  When my work is seen, I want the optimism, energy, passion to resonate. I want people to get a sense of freedom, of diversity and to see the color in life. I want them to feel a charge, a moment of exhilaration that their life is better because of the color I bring to it. I want them to be challenged to, consider their own lives.  I want them to think about the endless possibilities of what can be accomplished both individually and collectively.

My primary concern is with color. Specifically, how pigments interact and create visual tension with each other. I like to manipulate paint, mix it and push it in different directions. I work with different colors to see how they interact with each other. I let them play off each other.

Artist Wassily Kandinsky said, "Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically." I believe that music and art help shape our soul. I believe that we need to be moved to act, to change, to love, to pursue, to search… and art can do this.