I dig portraiture. I've had the honor of doing memorial portraits. From the photo, I am the filter for spirit, through me, my hands, the colored brush strokes. Any commission is fun! Keep that whimsy alive.The buyer knows the painting I produce won't be a carbon copy. I channel the energy, soak it into the pigment and canvas. It's that supernatural residue. You feel it and who knows why, that vibe you get standing in front of a Klimt or Redón. I also like freeform, letting the medium speak to me

In museums and libraries for those giant art books. Sometimes when I'm at the art supply store, a color, the specific shade in a tube would get the sap running. I also think of all the interesting artists I've met over the past 40 years, young and old, here and gone. I like to learn the Olde World methods to make paints, my own gesso, stretching canvas, restoring old guilded frames. I've had many teachers with tricks, tips and sage advice, like: "why is that area of that painting so precious?"

Find a barn to paint in. Maybe a studio in an English garden. A kiln perhaps. And the Diego Rivera denim jumpsuit, a lifelong quest for the right one, doncha know?