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It was only after retiring early from a marketing career in the high tech sector that I found my passion for drawing and painting and for portraiture, in particular.
This quote from Portland artist Storm Tharp expresses my sentiments about portrait painting:
"I cannot help but fall into the rhythm of the figural gesture. After years and years of drawing, I find no line as pleasing as the slope of a soft shoulder. I find no color quite as beautiful as the glowing Campari red of sunny backlit ears. I am forever intoxicated by the lines at the corner of our eyes and the supple complexity of the lower puffy eye socket. Isolated, these forms turn to gestures which turn to landscape and to dancing. The shoulder is mountain. The area between chin and collar becomes a sweaty ravine. The practice and familiarity of rendering these forms builds upon itself--making way for wrong turns, new gestures, new discovery, real knowledge, better painting."
Art Studies
Gage Academy of Art, Seattle WA, 12 month Studio Arts Intensive 2015-2016
The Art Students League of New York, Figure Painting daily practice, 14 months 2020-2022
Courses and workshops with various artists both in the US and Abroad, among them: