reveal the beauty of common things...
...He can either be a mere recorder, or a prophet of the beautiful...
it is this deep sincerity, this deep appreciation of things that makes [a] picture great and causes us to feel, when we behold it, that we have thought and felt that way all our lives."
That was the genius John F. Carlson, sharing a philosophy that is a guiding light to me. As a painter I hope to bring some insight, some beauty, or identify the profound, beyond the documentation of a subject. All that being said, with great reverence for the impressionist, my painting wanders from impressionism toward realism.
