“I spent 25 years of my life as a commercial
photographer, always considering that at some point I would shift my energies
back to my original desire to create art with paint. While photographing
François Gilot and her husband Jonas Salk, François rekindled the muse and
refocused my creative photographic outlet back to brush and canvas. She was
very inspirational. There is no doubt that painting was built into every cell
of her being. Being a photographer can
teach you much about painting, certainly composition and lighting. But it also
forced me to consider true creativity. The dilemma for me was interpretive or
non-interpretive art. I could photograph someone and make them look stunning or
loaded with charm and character. It seemed it was much easier and more “real”
than trying to capture their essence with a paintbrush. I wanted to achieve
true originality and that led me to a pure abstract approach to painting..”
Image: Rod
and Angelica Jones
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