The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.