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Artist Statement
"Inspired by the power of my photographic images, I thus began my career as a painter...
Self-taught, having traveled extensively, I was drawn by the pathos and humanity portrayed in faces that I captured on film. Each face held a story....a story I knew I wanted to share on canvas. I wanted to paint the purity, the struggle, the despair....everything that helped shape their existence and so visually nourished my eyesight..
And so it was that I began my process by inverting my photographic images "upside down" on my easel. Using bold, wild brushstrokes, my painting language on canvas, I ignore the realities as I paint and focus on my interpretation of each subject. My faces as I create them display the weight of life's burdens, the inner souls of each person....and upon completion, as I turn and place my canvas "right side up" I can see the passion expended through my liberation. i find a constant reinvention to this process and relish the excitement of the chase."
Artist Biography
Born in new York, educated in Miami, my life has been enriched by my exceptional family, my travels around the globe, my sponsorship of a native american child who is now a young lady, my work with indigent children and my passion for the arts as a painter and a photographer.
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