About

Short Bio

Art was always part of my life. Oil painting since mid sixties which turned to also watercolor and plein air for the last 30 years

Statement

After a lifetime of painting from the age of eight, I have been a plain air watercolorist for about thirty years now. My first experience with art was at age three, when I threw food at the wall from my   

high chair.  Maybe I should do a museum show with that. 

It’s all about expressing ourselves. It was much easier for me to paint than to put sentences together in school,  so I drew pictures and cartoon strips of the teachers and interactions between students, which in turn helped me socially with other kids.

From the beginning of time communication was in the form of art and speech. Wasnt one of our earliest communication skills painting on cave walls?

Throughout my childhood I aways had a camera and used my dads movie camera to make animations copying what I saw in warner bros cartoons.  The Plein air experience started when I moved to northern california and enjoyed exploring the different scenes with a camera. Painting came into play and I wanted to enjoy the outdoors so Plein air painting including watercolor it was.

Art taught me how to think.  It taught me the formula for solving problems, organizing and getting from point A to B and creating a better way to get to a solution. In painting, you think, where do i start. O.k. I start with an idea. what inspires me. Then I sketch out a rough form. Then I think what is the focus, Etc,Etc.  These are the formulas we use in everything we do whether it be business or architecture or understanding each other. Art is to create. It is also to physically create by eye/ hand /brain coordination skills.  It teaches one how to learn to take chances, fail and succeed. And of course the inward meditative effects that come while we are in that zone.

 
Above all, art is a way to communicate. Our earliest communications were through art. People painted on the walls saying, "This is me. I was here". A picture of bison, "This is what I eat." A picture on a rock showing a man blowing
into an animal horn, " This is my music." Rock music. Lol. Then the Egyptians painted pictorial languages which gave us information on their lives, which otherwise  may have been lost in time. what will we leave for the future that
speaks about us? Picasso painted "Gueriica,"one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings, as did many others as they expressed their feelings. Our writings, movies and paintings are our message for now and 
the future. A message of who and what we were about.... If our pictorial cave is still here.