"I am a contemporary realist painter, working primarily in oils on canvas, and sometimes watercolor on d’Arches paper or board. My drawings are in charcoal, graphite and ink. My contemporary realism can also be considered Americana. My attention is often arrested by a particular moment of illumination of a subject in the material world, captivating me by an attendant emotion as to its beauty or poignancy, something intangible, that I would save, memorialize.* I have previously stated my interest in capturing the anthropological imprint on the landscape (old iconic architecture, etc.), in fleeting light and atmospheric conditions, the momentary and transitory, as such alludes to the temporal and eternal implications of our human condition. I apparently would set down markers for at least myself, of mankind’s crooked path in this earthly wilderness. ~~~~~~ *In fact, a thought recently occurred to me that I not only paint to preserve, but I think art itself is a preservative of culture, no matter how iconoclastic it is or its creators consider themselves to be. The art is inevitably a statement on the condition of that culture, in which the artist finds him/herself, at the point of its creation. Art records certain information: pictorial, literary, photographic, musical, etc., thereby preserving its contemporaneous culture, as long as it (or record of itself) lasts." - David Swanson