What I paint - I usually like to have some kind of narrative in my paintings. I get ideas and inspiration from reading, from old master and contemporary paintings, from nature, and from delving into my own imagination. I like to include images that have symbolic meaning that viewers can interpret in some personal way. For more about what I paint click here

How I paint - I particularly like traditional painting techniques of Europe that were used and developed before the advent of impressionism, and modern art. I study painters like Bruegel, Raphael, and pen and ink artists like Gustave Dore. I also study many contemporary artists who work in these older techniques. I keep sketchbooks in which I draw imagined ideas or whatever or whoever's in front of me. Some of these ideas evolve into paintings.

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