Artist Statment
"Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand
that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself
in youth that your old age will not lack nourishment".
- Leonardo Da Vinci
I have always conducted myself in such a way as to honor those
words, as well as the moral code which John Ruskin wrote in his
'Seven Lamps of Architecture'. That moral code I have interpreted
as follows.
Should a choice be made between a lesser or higher quality of material,
to use the best and present the highest quality in my work because
my audience deserves it.
My work has always been an honest interpretation of the world around
me, not by what is popular or marketable.
Artists of the past have inspired me and I intend to have my work
outlive me to inspire artists of the future.
Abstraction is not art in itself but a language which interprets
the natural world.
With the freedom we enjoy as artists we also are subject to the
responsibility to not insult, ridicule or harm in the name of art. |
