'I'm not satisfied with a painting or willing to call it finished until all four major elements - line, color, mass, and unity of composition - are equally strong and working together harmoniously.' - Jeff Katz
I was born in Hartford in 1946, went to Weaver High School and then on to Middlebury College in Vermont. As stated on my website, my former father-in-law began mentoring me when I was twenty-four, at which time I first held a paint brush in my hand since early childhood. Dave Shubow, God bless him, was a master-artist climbing on scaffolding in his mid-eighties to work on large, nonrepresentational...more
