Still Life with Teapot

I love to paint, draw and sculpt. I enjoy the process offered by each of these disciplines but do not have the patience required to be a sculptor. I am awed by subtractive sculptural methods. There is less room for error when a rigid material such as marble is the medium of choice. Donatello, Michelangelo, Bernini, Rodin, and Daniel Chester French were gifted and patient men. Painting is more immediate and is best suited to my ardent nature.

There is something very rewarding in the creation of a simple and traditional still life.Within every object, there lies a beauty that not everyone can see. An artist can enliven the

inanimate by showcasing its volume, form, color and "spirit." But for myself as an artist,the process of observing ,conceiving and manipulating pigment on a surface, despite the subject or end result, is what I love best about painting. There is a stillness and quiet during the

entire process that makes everything else seem to disappear. My recent still life paintings are about reflection-actual physical reflection of light and color and about reflection of one's thoughts and 'true' self amid the silence.