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artist's bio

Melone Semplice - Oil on Cradled Panel - 14 x 10	Sitting Down for Dinner - Oil on Cradled Panel - 12 x 9
The Sunlight Leaves, Burano - Oil on Cradled Panel - 30 x 24	Evening Light Softly Comes, Burano - Oil on Cradled Panel 30 x 24
It's Where I want to Live - Oil on Cradled Panel - 24 x 13	It's a Beautiful Day - Oil on Cradled Panel - 19 x 15

About the Artist: My call to painting came after two degrees and several careers. Today I am a professional oil painter, plain and simple. Honest to what I believe and see as true, my paintings are direct and applied primarily with pallet knife. A part of this direct approach is making my painting a painting and not an illusion, recording or reporting of reality. Photography is capable of those particular functions. In addition, it is important that the quality and use of the paint, the media, be as interesting to me as the image itself. While painting, I do run up against the edges of the rectangle but I use the pressure of edges to hold my objects on to the rectangle. The edges also press the viewer to stay within that rectangle. Painting as an American painter, while paying homage to Hopper, Katz, Warhol, and Thiebaud, I try to find my own way.

I stop working on a painting when it makes me smile. For me, there is no one goal to this process of making art. I am a professional painter and I want the painting to take me where it will take me without any preconceptions and classification. One painting will lead on to another idea and an idea will lead on to another painting. In today’s daily over-looked, over-stimulated life, where people always seem to be living and rushing into the next moment, one goal is to get people to stop, be still, to look and be moved before rushing on.