much. For the past 50-60 years I have been preoccupied with culture and art. My painting is informed with a broad study of its history and techniques. In terms of contemporary art this does not mean much. Particularly in France. Ironic. So, why do I paint? For the last 50 years my creative efforts have been divided between photography and painting. Today, much of my attention is directed to digital photography. I do this in a spirit of appropriation. That is to say Y've become very much involved in it from the inside …

Back to painting. After much reflection, my opinion of 2O^th century art has become quite low. I need to write more about this, but I'll just day that in my humble opinion the impressionists where the true revolutionaries. I believe that someday there importance will be understood. My hope is I paint in the spirit of the truth of art. Not conceptually but in a physical as well as spiritual sense.