my father was a painter, so I'm a painter. I do it because it is my job to turn nothing into something good. something hopeful.
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Large abstract paintings, the symboligy varies
Where do you find inspiration?I’ve been on this path for 46 years. I’m inspired by the fear of not painting. Of disappearing… betraying my promise
What would you do with $25,000?Fix my truck, buy a ton of paint, make more big paintings and watch people respond. Probably put up a retrospective in an old factory in a depressed post industrial city… like Torrington, ct
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