Let us together restore the profession to the noble status it once was.” MD

As I mature and work I see the changes in the quality of the culture, and my goal is to reward the viewer with thoughts, and images, of nature, I realize unlike some great masters in history that nature is not perfect, but however that just makes painting so different from a camera. The frozen image made with a camera could never compete with ‘The Brush’, painters who see this and understand that, the communicative skills with paint, is a paradigm of all of life’s non tangible events, the latest of my works I hope move the viewer and appeal to that part of the mind without ego, just a simple touch from a simple painter.

On searching for other comments from great painters I found these”

One must copy nature always, and learn to see her rightly. It is for this that one should study the antique and the great masters, not in order to imitate them, but to learn to see, and by doing so understand communicative skills. Go to the great classical museums like the Metropolitan or the Louvre (in Paris) or the great Hermitage . . .I send you there to learn, from the antique how to see nature, because they themselves are nature: therefore one must live among them, and absorb them. I don’t want to make you a copyist, no I want you to discover the spirit in the paint.

“Ah yes last but not least. . .if you cannot draw don’t call yourself an artist!”

I come to you quicker than a shadow faster than a greyhound I have traveled the world without a without a witness against me. Pharaoh