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Some personal notes:

As an artist, it is not my purpose to imitate nature, but rather to reflect upon human nature. The paradoxes of Life on Earth are what interest me, both artistically and spiritually.

I was trained primarily in drawing and painting. Therefore, the vivid expression of an image is what preoccupies me. Exploring the dynamic forces that make up the entire composition of a work is another matter of interest, from a formal point of view.

Distinctions between ‘fine art’ and ‘illustration’ are secondary to the innate intensity or communicative purpose of the work itself.

As in any art discipline, the elements of discovery, surprise, and experiment play a large part. With me, those factors tend to be on a descriptive level, although they can also be technical, or conceptual. Further to that, such additional elements as narrative or humour become welcome ingredients when they impart a greater source of enrichment to the viewer.

The viewer plays an all-important role, and in fact actually completes the work when his/her imagination connects with it.

Other bodily receptors can be activated as well, beyond the imagination alone. A tingling in the toes, the kneecaps, the solar plexus, the nape of the neck, etc., etc. -- this is what happens when we experience intense emotion, or intellectual excitement. Art is doing its job when it produces these results.

Date: 07/16/2009
Size: 16 items (33 items total)
Trapeze

Trapeze

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 2104
Snappy Hat

Snappy Hat

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 2359
Several Kinds of Love

Several Kinds of Love

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 2055
Grief

Grief

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 1982
Drunken Monkey

Drunken Monkey

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 2883
Bebop Bird

Bebop Bird

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 2281
Baby Sees The Moon

Baby Sees The Moon

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 2185
Return of the Favorite Son

Return of the Favorite Son

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 1944
The Theft of Fire

The Theft of Fire

Acrylic on board

Date: 10/19/2009
Views: 6312
Weightlessness

Weightlessness

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 2281
Pilgrim

Pilgrim

Date: 07/16/2009
Views: 1848
Birth of the Hero

Birth of the Hero

a series of four paintings

Date: 07/16/2009
Size: 4 items
Views: 1843
Birds

Birds

Date: 07/16/2009
Size: 8 items
Views: 1800
Dogs

Dogs

Date: 07/16/2009
Size: 5 items
Views: 1734
Sphinx

Sphinx

Acrylic on Board

Date: 03/23/2008
Views: 1716
Headless

Headless

Date: 08/25/2010
Views: 1904
   
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