“Your dreams come real here. Be honest, I’m a nature freak. I love to walk through the woods and talk to the animals. Don’t tell anybody that. I even talked to trees at time, but you need to understand nature to appreciate the great great things that have been created.”
“I have made art all my life…”
“On this canvas, you’re the creator. Anything that you want, you can build here. This is your world. Your dreams come real here. Be honest, I’m a nature freak. I love to walk through the woods and talk to the animals. Don’t tell anybody that. I even talked to trees at time, but you need to understand nature to appreciate the great great things that have been created. We spend so much of our life walking around looking with, never never seeing, and if painting teaches you nothing else, it’ll teach you to see nature to appreciate some of the beauty that surround us every day that we take for granted. I think sometimes we work too hard at painting. Painting should always be fun, should make you happy. That’s when you’re truly an artist. And go out sometime in the woods and and study trees, talk to trees, whatever it takes. Tree needs to be your friend if you’re going to paint him. Probably out in New York you have some beautiful trees that you can look at study what happens in the tree, what makes each one an individual. Study nature. I really, I really have some hangups about nature being destroyed. I would like to see nature remain the way it is. I would like for my son, his grandchildren maybe when he goes back to Alaska to be able to see a real moose, not just pictures of one. So, appreciate what we have.”
