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While my favorite subject is the human form and face, the thing I really get excited about is the way that colors and textures build as a painting progresses. When I view a painting, I take as much pleasure studying the surface of a small section of canvas as I do when I stand back to take the whole thing in. I can get happily lost in a square inch of paint on canvas.

My primary influences are the French and American Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Sargent, and Mary Cassatt rank among my favorite artists. Not to mention Daniel Greene, the renowned portrait artist I studied with at the Art Students League of New York.