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My work over the past 25 years has been an enlightening foray into the realm of the ‘Still Life’.
I paint still lifes, not as an exact imitation of their external appearances, but from memory; their inherent sensual and tranquil qualities. I use these attributes to create works that are non-moralizing, with an uncompromising directness suffused in an evocative mood that invites thought and reflection.
I think of myself as a defective baroque painter, edging towards realism while embracing minimalism and albeit with a wink and a nod to Chardin, Cezanne, de Chirico, and Morandi, in other words flirting with disaster.
The unadorned architectural setting I employ adds to the quiet stage where my painting/artistic objective becomes the subject of the play at hand. A poetic-philosophical homage to nature and the Arts, both past and present. Somewhere between here and there my work delves into that nebulous area where the intellectual and emotional enigma of life and death presents itself as commonplace and extraordinary.
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