Art

My interest in painting any particular thing I see comes first from a compelling composition. The way a model is positioned; the way the lines converge down a row of old buildings; the grouping of a set of objects (or even a single object) and the shadows all these things cast is what initially catches my eye. Of course, you can't have cast shadows without a defined light source, which becomes the equally important reason that the model - or the buildings - or the objects are appealing to paint. Light communicates form, usually by creating abstract shapes on the model, etc., which tell the eye if the plane that the light is falling across is flat, rounded, receding from or advancing toward the painter. My challenge is to communicate - through my paints and the principles of my art - the flat, rounded, receding and advancing planes of light and color to the viewer.

There is always a challenge, no matter how simple the composition or singular the light source, to create the illusion of three dimensions on a flat canvas or piece of paper. My joy in creating art comes from rising to that challenge and making something compelling out of essentially nothing.