About Me My style of painting realism is inspired by the work of modern painters who combine realism with a strong emphasis on abstract design, such as Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter, Edwin Dickinson and Edward Hopper. I've been painting in oils for more than ten years, getting my start at age 16 in my high school's wonderful art department. I tend attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying painting with Sidney Goodman, Elizabeth Osborne, Arthur DeCosta, among many others, but learning almost as much from my fellow students. My artistic process relies heavily on observation that is to say I trust my eyes as my main tool in my work. I've not settled on any one genre, finding portraiture, landscape and city scenes and still life all equally fascinating subjects. I consider oil paint to be my primary medium, but love drawing in pencil and charcoal as well as painting with watercolours and ink. |