When studying a person to prepare to paint them, I need to honor them down to an emotional, cellular, historical level. When I begin to look and learn about the person I am about to transform, each person begins to take on a luminosity all their own. For every person I paint, each curvature of their skin is supported by structure that holds a historical story line. Within this the strength of their bone and muscle, which shows right to the surface in movements in their skin, creases, dimples, wrinkles of all ages. These are the stories of failures and triumphs, pains and blessings, loss and gains of love, loved ones, past, present and foreshadowing of an untold future.
