My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.
Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.