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The power of a painted work of art is its ability to capture your attention with the impact of its imagery and then draw you in and keep you captivated by its nuance and individual passages.

A good painting is visually compelling and demonstrates artistic competence. A better painting not only demonstrates mastery of technique, but goes a step further by imbuing both intellect and the creative spirit. A great painting takes creativity to a new place. A true artistic journey requires completing each of those levels in the evolution of…

I became interested in pattern in college while looking at the works of Matisse, Frank Stella’s Black Paintings, as well as Warhol. Pattern serves as a means to create rhythm and movement in a painting, while at the same time creating compositional structure. I view it as a direct link between visual arts and music.

Many of my paintings are outcomes of digital sketches that I create in PowerPoint and reflect a cross section of digital and painted image. To some this may seem like a non-traditional approach. It was not intentional. Rather, I have been creating PowerPoint presentations throughout most of my professional career, so it naturally, or perhaps…

The compulsion to create and consume art is innately human. Art connects our conscious and subconscious mind. It serves as a respite by satisfying the human desire to express, reflect, ponder, perceive, question, conceptualize, philosophize, intellectualize, emote. Beyond that it serves no higher purpose. The fact art can trigger discourse such as conjuring the notion…

Don’t paint what you believe will be commercially viable. Likewise don’t try to be intentionally shocking. Paint what is in your mind, heart, and spirit. An artist’s success is not measured by sales, but by the satisfaction of satiating the intellect. As an artist you have the opportunity of sharing your unique perspective with the…

To me painting is about problem solving through visual expression, which is not dissimilar to any other type of problem solving. Paintings start with either a concept of form and/or subject. Visualization of the concept can take weeks, months, or years before paint touches canvas. Sometimes a concept remains only a mental image to be…

I like to think I paint contemporary images in a “modernist” style. Although my style of painting is often responsive to the subject being painted.

I’ve heard musicians say, “There are no bad notes.”; that what is important is the note or the notes that follow. I believe the same to be true with painting. Don’t give up or try to cover up an element that didn’t have the intended result. Because then it looks like a mistake. Rather respond,…

I like the discourse of art. I am drawn to and want to create works that are evocative and at times provocative; that challenge the viewer to think differently or look inward at their own perspectives; to consider and discuss.