SEEING STILL LIFE AND FIGURES IN ART
While avant-garde artists, sculptors, and architects often transgress limitations of the media, style, and even what art may represent, my work is rooted in realism with a special focus on color. I continue to be attached to my art-historical training in Renaissance and Baroque art, having learned to draw by copying Italian masters. Leda is an homage to Tintoretto (1518-1594) and Picasso (1881-1973), while my floral pieces evoke compositions of Netherlandish artists like Jan Davidsz. De Heem (1606-1684) and Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750).
Flowers, as countless sources of inspirations and design, have consumed me for some forty years. As a master gardener with awards from the Canadian Horticultural Society, I have designed and planted my Canadian and Princeton gardens. My floral compositions are an extension of real space, but often they dissolve into geometric shapes while preserving their identity through design, color, and light.
While the majority of my paintings are still-life compositions, often depicting items from my collection, such as in Two Friends, a porcelain group with a Pierrot and his dog, I also enjoy painting figural compositions. Georgia, one of the female heads in the trio with Amarylis Girl and Lottie, has earned her subtitle Stolen Woman, as the full scale design was stolen from the artist’s mother’s hospital room after she presented it to her on Mother’s Day. Redrawn and painted, she joins her happier mates in unexpectedly subdued tones.
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