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...
In a successful painting everything is integral—all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness. —Richard Diebenkorn Over the past month, while working on a particularly challenging project, I have immersed myself...
How adverse situation led to breakthrough in painting practice.
Happy Birthday to Diego Velázquez, who was baptized this day in 1599. Velázquez is truly a painter's painter and there are so many ways in which he has inspired my own practice. Foremost, his brush work and color harmonies! The multitude of reds, pinks, oranges and...
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.
Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action—and consequently accumulate grain on grain of wilful choice like a very miser—never forgetting how one link dropped undoes indefinite number. —William James I...
