As I looked through my portfolio recently I was struck by an extensive reliance on orange hues. As far back as I can remember I've had a natural affinity for the orange. Perhaps, as I am an October baby, it's to be expected. Nevertheless, it's hard to think of a color...
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow—the coup de grâce—for the painter as well as for the picture.
—Picasso
There’s a particular pressure in the art world to present a cohesive, easily recognizable body of work. Like many painters, I began with a deep desire to capture the external, tangible world. For a decade I have worked within the representational tradition, striving...
Lavender, lilac, plum, periwinkle, eggplant, grape, amethyst, mauve, mulberry. Purple as a category descriptor seems pedestrian by comparison to its offspring, until one learns it derives from the Latin purpura, the Tyrian snail, the subject of a gobsmacking story of...
How adverse situation led to breakthrough in painting practice.
What do The Beach Boys have to do with painting?
Does an audience complete an artwork?
Behind the scenes creating The Rocks of Rhode Island paintings.
Botanica celebrates the diversity and ingenuity of plants, as displayed in their circulatory, tissue, and reproductive systems. Trained as a painter, I find I am always drawn to the color, texture and form in my subjects. Thus, for the images in the Botanica series, I...
