EARLY PAINTING

You will not be interested in

the really early paintings. The earliest one I am willing to show you was painted in 1972 while in Avignon, France for the first time. Lace Curtain is actually in the Gone to France series on this site. It was a study made from a painting by Edouard Vuillard...or was it Pierre Bonnard? I cannot seem to locate the painting that inspired me to be certain. But it is likely one or the other because they were my favorite Impressionists...

my goal as a painter.

Norman Lundin, my drawing and painting professor at the UW, in the early days, snatched the crow-quill pen and ink from my hands and delivered a lump of charcoal and a bit of chamois to aid in loosening me up.

It is the loose, fluid, and spontaneous quality that I admire and cannot arrive at since I do not have the confidence that comes with painting every day. And so I go for the atmosphere of light on surfaces that intrigued the Impressionists and hope that with time I will accomplish those images in my head that my hands cannot now render.