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I enjoy most about painting that time that inevitably comes when a painting begins to take over and paint itself. It tells me what it wants to be, and everything falls into place and works because I'm just watching it happen. This is the fun part about painting.

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Even though I grew up in a household where my mother was a portrait painter, it never occurred to me that I would pursue that path. I didn't know I could draw until I went to college, but the one painting that best represents the three primary influences on my early work would be Claire, Harriet, and John. In that painting, I have portraiture, which I absorbed from my mother.

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I have space, which I absorbed from learning about architecture, and a love of abstraction, which comes from studying with Josef Albers. My transition to more abstraction is probably most evident in the painting called Italy Redrafted. It's not simply a landscape of Perugia, where I was. The buildings and the people in them seemed to be light and airy, and I've put myself in the painting as the artist who is thinking about the scene that he is painting.

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And this is important because I want you to see that it is being made by a painter. That's why I'm in the paint picture, and you're seeing my imaginings and my wonderings, as I paint the one painting that does excite me in what some of the new things that it does are blue green. And I achieve in that painting, this kind of duality of flatness and illusion that I'm always striving for.

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A painting can evolve from primitive lines and colors into something three-dimensional. The processes that happen in the act of painting can be seen in different stages. Because of my putting one painting inside another space where it's being made. That's why I love the studio. It's got all that. It's got everything I want. It's got people.

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It's got portraiture, it's got space. It's got the making of paintings. It's got ideas about what painting could be, what wonderment there is in painting. What do you discover?