Night Watch
Motel morning
Deesse du sloir
About 20 years ago I did a series of paintings about people dancing. I had been painting a lot of commissioned portraits and that changed the way I composed a picture. My earlier pictures ‘Working Girls’ were composed to illustrate the spaces and tensions between people which are not elements one desires in portraits. I […]
Belle of the ball
Cut the rug
When I was painting my dance pictures, my wife made me aware of Frankie Manning; he’s the greatest swing dancer of all time and it was a no-brainer to include him in my dance pictures. The picture with him was bought by a patron of ballet and hangs in her living room. At one of […]
Liar
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Winter’s dance
When my dealer told me that he had sold this picture to a female couple, I expressed surprise saying: “I never saw it as a gay picture.” He laughed and said: “Have you looked at your picture? There is no face on the figure in the suit. It’s a picture that can be read in […]
In the blink of an eye
Masked ball
Nude at the window
