My artistic journey

My Artistic Journey is inspired by my desire to share with fellow art lovers my personal journey of growth and development as an artist. I refer to my artistic growth as a journey because that's what it is, a journey with an unknown finite destination.  I know in general terms what I want to convey to the viewer of my art, but I don't know precisely what paths or steps I will take to better achieve my artist goals.  The journey is about the process of seeking continual improvement and satisfaction. Although other artists, particularly past masters, have influenced my style of painting, the overall "look" of my work has been developed over the 50 plus years since I painted my first seascape near laguna Beach, CA.

Except for taking two plein air workshops from very accomplished painters to refine my ability to paint more effectively on location, I'm a self taught artist.  Self taught is a loose term for it implies that everything that I know, and all of my skill was "discovered" without the help of others. This is not the case at all.  It just means that other than the one illustrating course in college, I was not  formally trained as an artist in an academic institution.  As my journey has progressed, I have visited countless art museums and galleries and have studied the paintings of past and current masters that convey to the viewer some of what is important to me. So I have spent a lot of time dissecting the work of others in order  to seek out how they achieved what is special about each of their great paintings.My work continues to be inspired and influenced by the art of current and past masters and books that they have written.