ABOUT MY ART

Statement
I start from something that I like or that interests me – a fact, a story or a piece of art. I find oil to be the medium best suited to realize the sense of possibility of a new start. The concept is not necessarily something that I start with. It is rather part of the discovery process, not fully intentional and often rambling. Mistakes and lucky strokes are equally part of this process of realization, which is never complete as it must remain open to the viewer’s own experience and interpretation. Layers of paint –form, color and light— are the common language. As the first viewer of my work, I often see it as something quite different, almost disjointed from where I started.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.” –Picasso
Bio
I have been painting since 2016, mostly in oil but also experimenting with other media. I am drawn to portraiture. The immediacy of a subject that is not staged, but fully engaged in action, appeals to me the most. I like to explore the relationship of man and environment. I live and work in Maryland, United States. 
Solo Shows:
Yogic Portraits - Paths from the Self to the Universal
- Crossroads Gallery, Goodwin House, Falls Church, Virginia (February 16 - April 11, 2022)
- Gandhi Memorial Center (GMC), Washington, DC (October 23-November 30, 2021). 
Group Shows:
Alaska Watercolor Society, 47th Annual Juried Exhibition (2021).
Floyd Center for the Arts 2021 Juried Exhibition, Floyd, Virginia (2021).
Master Copies/Interpretations, the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Juried Exhibition (2021).
Lone Star Art Guild (LSAG, Southeast Texas) Art Show, Juried Exhibition (2021).
Food for Thought, Webster Arts, National Juried Exhibition (2021).
Heroes, Heroines & Heroics,  Flagler County Art League, National Juried Exhibition, Winner of Award of Merit (2021).
Conroe Art League (CAL) Spring 2021 Judged Show, Winner of 2nd Place and Honorable Mention (2021).
Models in Motion, SCORE, International Juried Exhibition (2021).
Elevate, Webster Arts, National Juried Exhibition (2021).
Exhibizone,  International Exhibition (Winter 2021).
Faces and Figures,  Flagler County Art League, National Juried Exhibition (2021).
Painting through the Pandemic, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, National Juried Exhibition (2021).
Traditions: Latin America and the Caribbean, International Art Show, Raleigh, North Carolina (2021).
Other: 
Artistonish, Contemporary Art Magazine features (February 2021; March 2021).
My painting, Tagore and Gandhi—I Receive You, was shown at Wandering in Wonder (May 2018) – a GMC and Santiniketan Ashram program for Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary. It was also the cover of the CD “This is My Prayer—Songs of Rabindranath Tagore” by Jeffrey H. Bauer.