Artist’s Statement

Brief Artist's Statement & Ethos. See following page ‘Essay on My Ethos’ for more…

“What’s New is Old Again.” This phrase reflects my  artistic vision which veers sharply away from the relativism of Post-Modernism, popularized the latter half of the  20th Century. I’m a NeoModernist.

I value Craftsmanship, Composition, and Sublimity’.

I prefer Art that reveals intention, and touches our humanity.

How I see the role of my Art:

My paintings begin with the visible world— whether landscape, common objects, flowers, figures or contemporary moments, they seek more than description. I use painting as a way to slow perception and recover significance in what daily life often makes too familiar or overlooked.

In a culture often defined by speed and distraction, my work offers a space for stillness, perception, and renewed connection—to place, nature, memory, and one another. I see painting as an act of attention and cultural reflection. I seek to make familiar things newly visible

I believe art has an important role in culture: it can reflect the conditions of its time while gently questioning its excesses—haste, distraction, detachment, and the loss of intimacy with nature and place. Through color, structure, and lived observation, I hope to create images that invite contemplation, renew attention, and make room for a more sensitive relationship to the world we share.

How I approach painting:

I find myself really enjoying the intellectually challenging painting process. By mining early 20th Century masters, I hope to raise awareness of their style and genius.

If even in a small way, I wish to raise general awareness of how extraordinary, by today’s standards, the Arts were in the early 20th Century, whether it was in the fine arts (painting), architecture ( e.g. Art Deco), literature, and music (Jazz compositions). There’s a reason so many look back upon this golden age of achievement so wistfully.

In short — “What’s new is old again.” My work returns to older ideas—not as nostalgia, but as a way forward.

I work exclusively with oil on canvas, as exploring the effects of color fascinates me. I enjoy tinkering with a still-wet canvas, during the days-long drying period. validating the importance of composition.

Figurative painting suits my vision. I find objects, even common objects, can elicit an emotional response when artfully presented. Or, as my favorite dictum goes, ‘It’s not what you say, but how you say it (that matters).’

Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Modernism are the primary influences I’ve studied. Whether in museums, auction houses, or private residences, I have closely examined those paintings, and been inspired by their craftsmanship and soul. Like old Jazz standards, I find traditional styles can be refreshed into something new again.

AI as a new development, can be useful as a tool, and I use it as an aid, like a sketch pad, not unike photography before it. AI shortens the design process.

My wish is to create paintings that align with my ETHOS: (Craftsmanship, Composition and Sublimity) elements that I cherish in the fine arts. See following page: ‘Essay on My Ethos’ for more…

I think of this process as a form of neo‑modernism: using contemporary source material filtered through old‑world craftsmanship. By the time a motif reaches canvas, the sketches have been challenged by drawing, corrected by observation, and transformed by layers of paint and glaze. The result is work that suggests memory more than novelty, as if these scenes have already been lived with for some time. In this way, the newest technologies become a path back to an older sense of looking, and what appears new arrives already a little worn, familiar, and human.

And so: