THREE PLUMS | Oil on Panel, 8 inches high by 10 inches long
CONCH SHELL WITH A VASE | Oil on Panel, 10 inches high by 8 inches long
NARCISSUS | Oil on Panel, 10 inches high by 8 inches long
STILL LIFE WITH MORANDI | Oil on Linen, 18 inches high by 18 inches long
WHELK AND BLUE VASE | Oil on Linen, 14 inches high by 14 inches long
ARTIST STATEMENT
What I find fascinating about the objects that I choose to paint is not only their form and color, but also the quieter nuances of their elemental aspects. In that regard they become poetic rather than literal.
My own experience with painting has become a search for poetry through the experience of seeing. Seeing deeply into a subject that intrigues me becomes as a portal into my own sensitivities and responses to the visual world.
Painting can reveal moments that may be lost in memory, a blurred idea perhaps of bringing non-life into the present visually.
Artists who have influence me and my own understanding of painting have been Edwin Dickenson, Jean Baptiste Corot and Giorgio Morandi.
“Art, like love, appears as a form of fragile communication in which complete strangers can understand one another by resonance.” – Unknown
“Not to find the lovable object, but to find the object before you lovable” – Søren Kierkegaard