Fine Art Giclee on Canvas

Limited Edition of 150

14” x 9.75”=$250

21" x 14.75"=$375

31.5" x 22"=$575

Custom enlargement available

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I have painted many self portraits throughout my 60 year career as an artist, 
from art school to last week, young and old, and more than one in any given year in
drawings, charcoal, pencil, ink, watercolor, oil and etching. 
Not vanity, just looking and leaving a trace of the changes in my body,
feelings and state of mind.  Portraiture is a record for posterity. 
It is evidence of how life has molded us. 
It is a search to understand who we are, a way of reconciliation,
a trace left of our inevitable journey until we are no more. 
It is perhaps, as history prompts us to think,
a way to some degree of immortality. 
That is what I think portraiture confers and has conferred on
all individuals whose portraits have survived through the centuries. 
We know what they looked like, dressed like and
we can see and sense their characters,
yet though they are gone, they are still with us.

This is not the reason for the portrait. 
That reason is more immediately related to live life,
but is nonetheless, the result of the transmission of the likeness and
spirit through an artistic medium to the future. 
Self portraits are also necessary if one is to do portraits of others,
not only as a test of ability but of objectivity. 
Truth, detachment, honesty are tested in the auto portrait - t
he portrait of self, and self is best portrayed through objectivity,
through the understanding that we are physical, emotional, intellectual,
and most important of all, that we are spiritual beings. 
Our deepest reality is that we are not material beings only. 
That which exists beyond our physical lifetime is who
we really are and portraiture attempts to help us understand this profound truth.