Have I stayed the course? For the most part. I really began to "seriously" explore art as a pre-teen inspired by comic book superheroes. As I discovered the great artists of the Renaissance and the Baroque I was struck by the notion that many of their paintings shared a love for superhuman bodies in motion dressed in costumes of brilliant saturated colors. Later, I was inspired by the figurative works of the Impressionists (Degas and Manet), Post-Impressionists (Bonnard, Vuillard, Gauguin), and the Modernists (Matisse, Beckmann, Klimt, Schiele, etc...) Some 15 or 20 years ago we lost our studio space and I was living in an apartment where painting was impossible. I began to make collages inspired by my obsession with books and reading. I continued in this direction for some 5 years... until I attended an exhibition of Renaissance paintings in Washington DC and thought, "What the hell am I doing?" I returned to figurative art at that point... painting the human figure... and have no interest in any other direction.
