“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that

I have never painted a painting that is an exact replica of the scene or photo I am being inspired from. My art is an abstraction of the subject I am painting. But from that abstraction a deeper meaning and feeling emerges in the painting. It is my goal as an artist that my paintings whisper the Truth of the object or scene or person that I am abstractly portraying.