I am interested in how things look; I am also interested in painting that is based upon how things look. I like to see things the
way they are rather than thinking how they can be changed. The richness and range of the visual world constantly thrills and amazes me.
I am most particularly interested in using the part of our world which we seem to notice least...that is, our everyday surroundings as
we live day to day. Thus, I have painted friends and family, familiar houses, streets and neighborhoods. The paintings are on one level,
about middle class American life as experienced in California. On another, they are about reconciling that subject matter with concerns
about formal painting issues (the use of color and light, design, and the kinds of marks one must make to replicate appearances). They
are, in that sense, a part of a long tradition of European and American painting which has sought to find significance in the details
of the commonplace.
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