Photography

My introduction to painting and the world of art began before I can remember. As a very young child I was taken almost every Sunday to the art galleries and museums of New York City. My mother was a watercolorist and introduced me to the paintings of the world’s greatest artists. I had a continual education throughout my childhood.

As I grew older, I read extensively on the subject and studied the great artists and their different schools of art. My unvarnished opinion, based on all my study is that there is no right or wrong way to paint. Every painter has his own style and like their fingerprints, each is unique. And thank goodness or all works would be boringly the same.

Many great painters are noted for their distinctive brush stroke or use of color, others for their technique or abstraction. I am noticed primarily for my subject matter. I would rather paint a rarity, like a blue iguana from the Cayman Islands than a ubiquitous picture of a vase of flowers. Rarity in nature is my most appealing subject and it has also proven to be the subject matter of my most popular works. Being noted as a painter came simultaneously with my success as a publisher and editor of my magazine SUBURBAN CLASSIC. Exposure is often more important than the sum of an artist’s works. I hadn’t gotten better, I had finally gotten seen.
I have never forgotten that, and that is why I will never change my approach to painting. Be yourself, and if you are good, you will be noticed.