My Original Acrylic Abstracts

 

My love for art began in earnest when I lived in Italy for a year as a young man.  I visited every major museum, church and major destination in Western Europe.  I was shocked and awed by the creative possibilities in the human mind and hand.

 

My major mentor was Bob Weil, a professor of Sculpture at MSU in East Lansing.  We hung out together for about 18 years, doing one incredible task after another.  Bob was a master of sculpture, the multidisciplinary form of art. Sculpture is inclusive of all other forms of art. His love of Jazz Improvisaton rubbed off on me too.  In fact, if you could keep playing the piano past the right end of the keyboard, you would start playing color.   His genius was his appreciation for learning of all types, and he instilled in me a sense of belonging to a bigger world than jus the obvious.  He taught me to look beyond the obvious of the "apparent reality", and see possibilities unlimited by human limitations.  He taught me to push the boundaries...and take risks.  For Bob, it was about awarenss.

 

I have enjoyed painting as a form a personal therapy.  Painting is a place to go by oneself.  One sees onself more clearly when completing a piece of work.  Like flying my airplane, I become free when I paint.  I have learned to let go of the imaginary bonds that hold a person back.  I have learned to let go of what was said and done in the past, so as to be more present in my awareness in the present moment.  This is the only way I can paint.  In full awareness....