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These paintings are graphic memories of locations I visited
at some past moment. Most depict real places and how being
there felt to me. Texture or shadows, maybe a shape, a color,
possibly reflected light are the starting points for images.
Since I usually begin in the field, en plein air, the challenge
is to quickly create a credible image…. something
to use as visual notes from which I can work in the comfort
of a stable environment, relatively bug-less, free from
wind, blowing sand and debris falling out of trees where
I don’t have to worry about snakes, alligators or
other perturbed denizens of the wetlands and generally wild
terrain where I usually start these things. While a photograph
captures a lot, sometimes too much, a painter must be selective,
retaining certain features, omitting some and rearranging
the rest; these steps are necessary in creating the final
image.
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Forever a student, my approach to painting today is different
than it was just a couple of years ago; I think that trend
will continue. What hasn’t changed is the wonder I
experience any time I get to hang around watching the shadows
move, even if only for a few hours
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