Statement of Sulleness Painting

I am predominantly a self-taught artist and photographer. I describe myself as a nature/landscape photographer and a mixed media artist. Although, that defines only a portion of my body of work, since I love immersing myself into the historical culture of the areas that I am photographing and painting. I love to travel and most of my images come from those destinations. When looking at a subject, I look for light, texture, shapes, and patterns that catch my eye. Anything goes in my creative post-processing. I use textures and painterly effects if they enhance my art, photographic image and my vision for the piece. In 2017, my interest expanded from photography to creating two dimensional art. Art has given me the ability to experiment in different mediums: oil paints, oil pastels, acrylics, watercolors, ink, color pencils and photographic digital artistry. While traveling, I've made a concerted effort to do quick daily drawings using mostly ink, watercolor or oil pastels, and have joined several daily sketch groups. After creating my art, I find it satisfying taking the drawings and enhancing colors, adding textures or transforming something less appealing into digital masterpieces. To enhance my artistry skills, I've attended workshops and art classes online and offline. Continuing art education has provided me with a variety of art assignments, ability to study the master artists, introduces me to new software, exposure to a diversity of professional artists and photographers and art critiques. I continue to explore new ideas and techniques in pursuit of creating beautiful and interesting two dimensional art. I have had art displayed at local galleries and online galleries and a member of the Maryland State Art Council, Allegany County Arts Council and Western Maryland Watercolor Society.