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A last day at a beach - Holden Beach, NC.
(from medium format transparency)

My realist acrylic painting draws upon influences that evolved from my early childhood, when my self-taught painter father familiarized me with drawing and painting fundamentals. My own work began after decades of deferring to practical priorities in other aspects of my creative life as a graphic designer and architectural photographer sole practitioner. I could no more have done those with other artists as I could make a painting as part of a team. I eventually discovered the extravagant indulgence of rendering with plentiful detail the fleeting reality of a thought, or a glance out a window, or a roadside scene. In their own moment of life they each might have been forgotten, not fully grasped, or easily driven past unnoticed. What we...