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| I began painting in 1972 after my first year as a Physics Major at UCSB. I realized I wasn't drawn to a career in the sciences so I decided to try something new. My original goal was to do drawings for architects, given the impossibility of making a living as a painter, but that quickly changed when I was inspired by a teaching assistant to go outside and paint. I was hooked. I have been painting the landscape ever since, and even managed to make a living at it. I don't know if the beauty of Santa Barbara inspired me to paint the landscape or if landscape painting had me love Santa Barbara, but the two attractions grew together. Santa Barbara has an unusual geography, which produces a unique character of light and a rich resource of material for the painter, which has kept me painting here for 30 years. From the beginning it has been the light that has interested me. The objects in my paintings, the trees, cliffs, hills and water, are only there as vessels to hold and reflect the light which is the real subject. As such I am most drawn to the early morning and late afternoon hours when the substance of objects gives way to the fleeting play of light and atmosphere on their surfaces. I began painting postcard-sized sketches outside and gradually started painting larger and larger and moving more and more into the studio as the size became prohibitive. I have grown to love large paintings and while I spend most of my day in the studio I still make early morning trips to paint small panels outside. |
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