Statement
My paintings grow out of a moment of connection with a common object or scene: Fundamentally re-viewing something I've seen around me dozens, maybe hundreds of times, and realizing that it has within it the seed of a work of art. These quiet, peaceful, and intimate moments are for me the essence of what it means to be an artist. It's no accident that nearly all of my paintings are still lifes. I suppose they are really attempts to hold and savor these moments of mental and spiritual Stillness.
The paintings also owe an obvious and conscious debt to the great Dutch still life masters of 350 years ago. However, I live and work very much in the present, so modern sensibilities assert themselves, albeit in subtle ways.
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