Magic Lily

A scene from Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington, DC, one of my favorite places. My process is to take photos of an object and to paint those photos in the manner of Zen. This results in a highly stylized version of the photo. A fair expression of the Zen painting process is that subject and object become one. Each painting is also an expression of the artist in the subject. There is an extra vibrant quality to my work where I exaggerate contrast and create my own relationships rather than copying what’s there. I am not on the outside looking in, but I am every color in relationship to every other color. My process is completely intuitive, natural, and spontaneous which results in a more painterly rendering of the image.