Ideas are the currency of the human world. Ideas are a constant of human reality, as much in need of being portrayed as images of landscape, person, still life and abstractions. I have chosen to paint Portraits of Ideas.

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As an artist, I subjectively choose to immerse myself artistically, emotionally and intellectually in the idea of a work until it is complete.  I do not live and work in a vacuum; so hopefully, much of my work will importantly engage you also.

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The range of important contentious ideas spans everything from family to politics, science to religion, psychology to commerce and so on. But like all good art, Portraits of Ideas must avoid the gratuitous, propaganda, cliche and so on. 

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My work is meant to be beautiful in a contemporary sense suitable for many walls.  But it's function is more than decorative; it is meant to be pondered as much for the idea as for the portrayal, technique, or style.