Embrace the Experiment
AS Da Vinci recommended with painting “ Let go of your expectations” both scientific method and the joys of discovery require us to let go of what we want to happen when making a painting and see what is unfolding … Continued
Analytical Painting
In “Thinking Fast and Slow”, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman considers how we make decisions, fast and slow. Fast decisions are easy, quick and driven by habit and convention. Slow thinking requires mental work and the brain prefers the easier path. … Continued
Layering Media
A particular pleasure in both painting and photography is merging different images to create a new image. I enjoy layering different images so they can be experienced as a new single image laced with delicate ambiguities. We have varieties of … Continued
Sailing Experience
Ships and Harbors promise the mystery of travel; the journey begins and ends with arrivals and departures. Harbors are transient world. Peril, business and adventure cohabit on board. We have pictured harbors and ships since antiquity. By the early Renaissance … Continued
Sparkle and Shimmer
Hudson River Painters of the mid 1800s, like Sanford Gifford explained their work as poetic responses to the American landscape, not factual transcriptions. While artists like Sanford traveled far exploring both American and Italian landscape motifs they often found adventure … Continued