Recent paintings after Fra Angelico.
The reason I began painting icons years ago was because I always want a real icon, or one I had seen in a museum. So I decided to try and make my own, to copy the masters - which is how I learned to paint. Icons were religiously fashionable in the early 1970's, considered more theologically correct, not to mention the preferred form of sacred art to the romantic art of the West - especially the Baroque style. As time went on and the incredible snobbism associated with iconography left me discouraged, I turned my attention to Spanish Colonial and the Italian-Greco style of sacred art, perfected by Giotto and Fra Angelico, as well as the Sienese School - namely Duccio. Having been self taught in iconography, I graduated to painting in the other styles - by imitating the other techniques. Now, in my old age, I paint what I want. Most recently, I've collected very antique frames and filled them with my reproductions, or original works painted in the style of the masters I admire.
