DRAWING AND ME

​

My parents, two former artists, encouraged me to draw often, both from my imagination and also what was in front of me. My father helped to sharpen my observation with regular still life drawing sessions, always making me do two versions of the same still life: one in line only, using marker without any hope of erasure; and a second in pencil, in pure tone without any line whatsoever.

​

Now, as then, I draw habitually, anything and anyone, anywhere.  My most prized possessions are the sketchbooks I have generated over the decades, filled with drawings from observation and my imagination. For me, sketching from observation is both a sport, as well as a meditative exercise, a kind of emptying of myself to allow the subject in, through my person, to reappear on the page.

 

The rewards of capturing the subject in this way are enormous, similar to the feelings of satisfaction of a fisherman after a successful catch.

​

In all my work, regardless of the medium, I try to create the lifelike feeling which comes from sound drawing, and which I hope will delight my audience.