Artists Statement:
My personal approach and intention is best summed up by Robert Henri in his book 'The Art Spirit' in the following quotes: 'When the artist is alive in any person... he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for better understanding... A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle What we need is more sense of the wonder of life, and less of the business of making a picture. ...art is, after all, only a trace ' like a footprint which shows that one...more
