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| Artist's Statement |
 My work is influenced by all I have seen and admired, but none has made as strong impression on me as the group know as the "Hudson River School" of painters. Its leader, Albert Beirstadt, has had more of an impact on my work than any other artist. I do not imitate his art but try to approach the landscape as he and his peers did. They knew it was the light that created the magic. They took vignettes of the lighting situations and made composite paintings of all the best light shows they had seen. They painted huge canvasses with scale so large that it did justice to the scope and vastness of the subject. You stand with them in the Valley of Yosemite as shafts of light pierce the clouds and illuminate lichen-covered rocks and set distant snow covered peaks aglow.
I hope you are standing with me on the summit of Cadillac Mountain when the first rays of the sun touch the earth and set the pink granite mountain and the sparkling waters around it aflame. I hope you feel what I felt looking across the harbor in Stonington, Maine, on an early October morning photographing a fisherman and his son starting their long day tending their traps.
It is my greatest pleasure in life to meet the challenge of being there, to recognize the quality of great light, to capture it, interpret it, and to share it with anyone with a curiosity and love for the natural world. |
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