Living in the modern world, we are bombarded by photographic images, moving and still. On the whole, those images are sharp-focused, vivid, and high-definition. They say more about what they are designed to promote than they do about their subject or their creator. As an artist/photographer, I am drawn to the softer edges of painting: the brush strokes in oil and the wash of watercolor. That is why I use the term “photo-painting” to describe much of my work.
Why Water?
I was born within the sound of the ocean, and as a child, the beach was my playground. Water has a strong emotional hold on me. Now I live over two thousand miles from the nearest ocean. It is not surprising, then, that I am drawn to making images of water. Water offers me an abundance of visual fascination. It is ever-changing. And a photograph of water truly reveals what the eye cannot see.
