"Mr. Potato-head, the Parrot and the Handsome Mexican Cowboy" Painting

I am incapable of doing the things I need to do in order to have an art career. I am a prolific painter and paint constantly. I am not a teacher, not a member of a movement or a group. The only consistency in my work is variety. I do not like to repeat myself. I was born and raised in Connecticut and moved to Oregon in 1988. Painting is a deep need and lifetime obsession. I can't stop making art and I can't stop looking at art. Artistic production takes its own path. . Each painting is unique in it's conception and revelations. In the beginning there is the need to draw. A need to move and touch the surface with a mark. I look at my paintings and the time in my life I made it. I see the colors and images that seemed to grow unbidden and all of themselves in a manner I could not have ever predicted. I start from a place of hollowness and fill that place with color and in that time and place, made exactly to my specifications. I see there in front of me stories that I did not know were in my head. I have read that writers write every day and their characters seem to develop on their own. This is the narrative of my work.