STATEMENT

While at the University of Texas my painting was completely abstract and was influenced by the light and land around me. In 1970 I received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in Maine where I had an opportunity to meet and learn from some of the most important and influential artists of that time such as Brice Marsden and Kenneth Noland. While there I was also influenced by realist painters Jack Beal and Gabriel Laderman. It was at Skowhegan that I began to turn towards realism. I have, since, tried to understand, through painting, what it means to be a contemporary realist, a painter of my culture and of my time. Primarily, I try to understand light and its vicissitudes since light reveals form, color, everything. Since moving to Crockett California I have been fascinated with plein air painting. Plein air, a development of 19th-century painters, is perfect for a 20th-century consciousness. The painter observes and experiences the changes of weather, the changes of light, the flow of people, and, in general, the social-ecological environment. Recently, I have refocused more time and energy towards work in the studio. However, I find that my studio work is now informed and enhanced by the salient experiences of plein air painting as well as the formal and poetic aspects of my earlier abstract work.

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