"It's been many years since I started painting landscapes and urban scenes in and around Dallas, Texas. Scale is a very important element in my paintings since I have always thought about the perceived size of my paintings as being just as important as their actual size. My work consists primarily of panoramic views of these locales, as I feel that this format best suits the open vistas we come to associate with Texan Landscape. I would say that 95 percent of my painting I do on location and having been inspired by light, place and mood masters as Vermeer, Corot, Estes and Welliver, I place great emphasis on the light, time of year and weather conditions during the time my painting comes to life. Following the horizon, the sky is the next element that is of great importance to me, as it is the one, which I feel dictates the nature of the entire painting. It is the sky that determines the color and intensity of the light shed onto the landscape. I must admit that I often spent my time studying that blue abyss; analyzing the clouds, their movement…their metamorphosis; questioning their timeless nature and finally, their influence on the world atop my canvas. Maybe after I have painted landscapes for another twenty years, I will find answers to some of these questions, but if I don't, it'll only come as a testament to that mystery is perhaps the most powerful and beautiful phenomenon in our nature's own artistic repertoire."
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