ARTIST STATEMENT:

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Being in the continuity of representational realistic art is primary objective as an artist. Conveying traditional naturalism, but without polishing my work to a photographic finish, or at the other extreme interjecting an obvious mannerism, is by target.

 

As a portrait artist I hope to capture a person's personality or characteristic trademark via sound drawing and painting skills. For viewers unfamiliar with the subject I want them to see the subject as I have seen them, and for those who already know the person to identify with them through my portrayal. 

 

I feel lucky to be an artist in this era of the contemporary representational realism revival, amid so many current painters, drawers, and teachers, without the art-establishment antagonism which accompanied such work just a few decades ago (such as when I was a participant in Max Ginsburg and Irwin Greenberg's "Old Hat Club" live model drawing/painting sessions in New York City's High School of Art & Design in the late 1970's and early 1980's). 

 

When I, it was young I dreamed that the kind of art done by John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, William Merritt Chase, Anders Zorn and others would once again become a standard mode of art, and today it is happening and I am a part of it.