“I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go” – Indiana Jones

  I have always connected with this quote from Stephen Spielberg’s brilliant blockbuster film Raiders of the Lost Ark. My approach to art making almost always come from a place of improvisation. Each work takes me on a very different journey. Sometimes it develops quickly and is completed in a few minutes or a few hours and other times the work will sit in the studio or in my mind’s eye unfinished for days, months… years!

How it started:

 1. In high school my homeroom was the art room. I started every day surrounded by the tools used for making art.

 2. My friends and I spent every spare minute in the theater working on the latest school production. 

 3. My first job was working at the Cape Cinema In Dennis.

 My world in those years, art and creatives everywhere!

How it’s going:

  My creative impulses ebb and flow but I always try to be conscious of my surroundings in case something catches my eye. Cameras have always been my main tool (ever since I borrowed my father’s Canon FT in my early teens and never gave it back, thanks dad!) and although I once thought of myself as a photographer, over time I have found that the final work is not always a printed picture. Expanding my creative medium has given me a new appreciation for how to make art and I am always thrilled when I ask myself the question “what if I do this?” and explore the answer!

  My current show at the Craine Gallery, located inside the Snow Library in Orleans, is a sampling of how my particular thoughts and ideas take physical form. Exploring a surface with a macro lens. Expanding an image beyond its boundaries. Conveying action and movement of my hand on a static sheet of cotton. Showing the beauty of our natural environment through a sometimes abstract compositional lens. Creating a digital collage that responds to current events. Playing with materials to see how they transform or react when exposed to heat, or water, or the outdoors and affected by the passage of time.  

Guy “Laszlow” Trudeau – February, 2026