Musings

Artist's Statement :

These paintings are evidence of my long struggle to see, of striving to put
down, in oil paint on canvas, all of the recurring visions that take me into reverie.
After years of searching for my deepest artistic "fathers," I began to draw the most
profound inspiration from the aching and exhilarating light of Hopper and
Vermeer, the tactile, loose - limbed- yet- architectural , wildness of Bonnard, and
the geometric, austere, and searching poetry of Mark Rothko. There is something
so vital, and generous, about recreating imaginative spaces, interiors, and objects
in the light of the everyday..... or in the mysterious realms of dusk, dawn, and the
violet-blue nighttime.

"Sculpting " the mass of forms, using traditional concepts of underpainting,
highlights, half-tones, and shadows, feels like a way of "nailing down" the
ephemeral... of creating, as the artist Ross Neher says, "something of lasting
consequence and durability." So the hope, then, is that paintings such as these can serve a function, to offer palpable energizing evidence of the invisible...
the magical, and reflect the light that "shines in the darkness.”