Prologue
I have been seeing and drawing and painting my whole life. I can afford to do that full-time now because I earned my living working in television news in Washington, DC, Toronto, Canada, the USSR, Israel, Poland, the old Czechoslovakia, and Hungary for over 20 years. I even received an Emmy Award.
While I painted during those times, my serious work started when I rented a studio first in Portsmouth, NH, in 1987 and then in Somerville, MA, in 2009. I am still in that studio.
Starting in 1987, I spent ten years living in southern Maine amassing parts of old lobster traps to create what I call my “assemblages.”
When I painted it was in muted tones, culminating in a large narrative painting based on a personal tragedy. Then I stopped painting for several years.
Urban Icarus
Oil on Belgian linen - 36” x 46” - Available
The painting has been in juried shows where overheard comments were about how “beautiful” the painting is but no one, with one exception, wants to hang it on a wall in their home. The exception was a graduate from Harvard who asked his parents to give it to him as a graduation gift. They chose not to do that. The painting hangs discreetly in my studio and sometimes I reveal it to people.
It is still for sale.