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Artist
Statement
I paint from life and in the studio. I do a very loose drawing, in pencil or in paint, and then flesh out that sketch fully in oils. It is always smaller that the intended finished piece. Then I draw it again on the full sized canvas, making decisions and corrections in composition, palette, and proportions as needed. Because I have solved some of the problems by doing the the sketch, the finished work goes quite fast.
I choose as subject matter those things which please me; the way the light slants through a window, or the torque of a body in action, or the fascination of the opacity and transparency of water. My aim is to capture whatever it is that is special about the subject and recreate it on the canvas.
I am most pleased that the more I paint, the freer I get. No longer am I slave to the tight, careful renderings that I suffered when I started. I can delete or add whatever I want in a painting to improve it, such as adding a figure on a bicycle who never existed in a city scape, or taking out an unfortunate and un-needed shrub in a landscape. I have painted long enough and have the confidence to correct and create as I go.
It is a pleasure to play with the recreation of beautiful things. I love everything from the feel of the brush on canvas, to the smell of the mediums, to the final moment when you just know a painting is done.
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