Fine Art Giclee on Canvas

Limited Edition of 150

14” x 10.5”=$275

21" x 15.75"=$425

31.5" x 23.75"=$625

Custom enlargement available

Inquire

“One of, if not the most important condition in my painting a picture is that something about the subject calls to me, makes my head turn to look at it, draws me to it.  In other words, it reaches out to me rather than me deciding that I am interested in it.  So when then I go to it, I’m curious to find out what has caught my interest.  In this spirit of curiosity, I am open to discovery and discovery is always about something new and unknown.  It is somehow like it was supposed to happen yet it takes courage to approach and ask someone to allow you to paint or draw a portrait of them.  Fortunately, the call is often stronger than one’s self-doubt.  

Karim was working at the Nanette & Romare Bearden Art Gallery in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.  I asked if she would allow me to paint her portrait and she agreed.  I came on the appointed day and she was sorry to inform me that a tourist ship was unexpectedly in port and she would be too busy for us to work, and would I come another day.  I was almost more relieved than disappointed.  Portraiture is often an intimidating undertaking, but I was there and ready so I said, “Why don't we work until the people come, and then I will stop.”  She stood in the doorway waiting while we talked and somehow her gaze, her gesture, her jewelry and the color of her dress and surroundings, her eyes, everything was enveloped in a timelessness.  I hardly remember actually painting and we were done by the time her visitors arrived.  It was as if I had been given a beautiful gift. “