Artist Statement
I’ve always loved painting landscapes and seascapes. I tried using acrylics once but oil seems to fit me better. I started out in watercolor before deciding to be an artist in high school and enjoyed it and still paint with it sometime. When I paint scenes of nature it isn’t much different than painting the figure or still life. In all of these modes of painting it is the vital connection I make with the brush and paint onto canvas through all my being - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual - that moves the painting along to its completion.
Initially I started painting nature by plain air, then gradually, after learning directly from nature, I was able to invent my own paintings and most of the oils on here are done that way. It was like learning vocabulary to be able to speak without having to look up words anymore. And when I need to refresh my memory on what certain natural things look like again, I study them directly from nature or from a photograph just like a writer who forgets what a word means or the correct grammatical structure is need for a sentence refers to authoritative sources. I can’t see myself ever stopping painting naturally images.
Initially I started painting nature by plain air, then gradually, after learning directly from nature, I was able to invent my own paintings and most of the oils on here are done that way. It was like learning vocabulary to be able to speak without having to look up words anymore. And when I need to refresh my memory on what certain natural things look like again, I study them directly from nature or from a photograph just like a writer who forgets what a word means or the correct grammatical structure is need for a sentence refers to authoritative sources. I can’t see myself ever stopping painting naturally images.
