Artist’s Residency at the Mark Rothko Museum in Daugavpils, Latvia, October 2025.
Images of Paintings and Studio Pics from my recent October, 2025 Residency at the Mark Rothko Museum in Daugavpils, Latvia. All paintings are 1.5 meters tall by “x”, all paintings are acrylic and charcoal on 200 grams watercolor paper.
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My process is to walk through the city as much as possible, observe the layers of architecture and the flow of the city. Take photos, make sketches, and bring it to the studio to turn it all into paintings. I rely on my peripheral awareness, my unfocused sight, to pull forms and compositions from my surroundings. This is my process to capture the experience of being in Daugavpils.
My career-long interest has been to capture ‘realism’ through abstraction, to convey actual experience on the canvas, avoiding the appearance of things.
Focused vision accounts for less than 1% of what we see around us whenever we look at anything. I have trained myself to see and paint as much of everything else in my vision that is not in focus. Arguably, this is a truer representation of ‘reality’ than any elements captured in focus. The specifics of time and place connect to painting for me in the forms created as we move through space, and our peripheral awareness composes new and melded forms from real forms (for me, such as bridges, buildings, etc: the urban environment).
