Artist Statement
I have been painting as long as I can remember.
I am primarily a self-taught artist. I paint almost every day and spend countless hours working away in my studio. I work on several paintings at a time. Almost all my paintings come from my own imagination.
2e's studio
in Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005
Small home
studio, Cincinnati
I"ll take it from here, 2e
I consider a painting successful when it strikes a chord or triggers a response with a viewer, maybe a memory of the past or a dream of the future. I have always been intrigued by the psychological effect color, shape and use of space can have on the human mind. I take these elements into consideration whether I am painting teapots, landscapes, figurative, abstracts, or working on pottery and sculpting.
There is always more than meets the eye in all my paintings. This is something I started doing many years ago. I have developed techniques, using layers of transparent paint, to create a subtext within a painting. Images that reveal themselves appropriately after spending time looking at the painting. In one case, I received a phone call from a collector who had acquired one of my paintings some five years prior. She had just discovered a leprechaun in the lower left hand part of her painting. Thankfully, she was delighted and hoped to find more.
