The Painter's Painter

Welcome to 2010!!!!!

Seeing the Waterhouse show and Avatar all in one week was truly a senses breaker!!!!

All five senses exhausted but energized!!  That is the key.  The energy in both venues was what struck me the most.  Good painting and all great art hits you right in the heart.

Imagination!!!  We can manifest that which we believe is the truth!!

Witnessing the power of the earth and nature: recently with the earthquake in Haita has affected me deeply!!

Should I be  painting at a time like this?

Absolutely!   Aside from my donations, I posess an instinctive visual responsibility to paint an energetic positive  reference of our human existence.  We can dwell on the negative and in doing so, we cement its existence.  I prefer we look at our glasses half full and realize everything we do affects the positive balance of our surroundings.

Join me in our personal quests to help create a world of beauty where we can all live in peace!

"The Modern Pre-Raphaelite"

I want to expose you to a very important show currently showcasing the wonderful works of John William Waterhouse, Garden of Enchantment currently on from October 2, 2009 through to February 7, 2010 at The Montreal museum of Fine Art. Follow the prompts to wet your appetite of paintings from the late 19th century that affirm our human potential.

"Garden of Enchantment"

Red "Do you see it?"

One of the primaries.  When used in a painting it is the third color (first yellow, then orange)that attracts your eye.  It can be warm, it can be cool.  It can be mixed.  To our human eye we  can see it everywhere.  As a painter how do we transfer this information?  Do we do this literally or are we at the mercy of our pigments?

Trip to Washington DC

The Lady with the Red hat  Johannes Vermeer

National gallery Washington DC

Welcome and thank you for visiting ! I must start with my amazing trip recently to Washington D.C. USA. I attended The Portrait Society of America conference where I had the pleasure to become extremely inspired and educated by some of the foremost leading contemporary artists in the portrait arena. I also had the distinct pleasure of visiting The National Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery, both part of the comprehensive Smithsonian Institute. A smaller gallery, The Phillips Collection also did not escape my attendance.