Starting a new painting is a bit like setting off on an adventure. I don’t know where the journey will take me, but I feel pulled toward a place where symbols, textures, shapes, light, and color might reveal something unexpected. Few paintings have embodied that sense of discovery more fully than my latest work, The quest   (shown below). Like every still life I paint, I rely on intuition rather than rationality to tap into an inner world where ideas emerge through the symbolism of the...

It might as well have been the holy grail. That's how excited I was to find the dusty anatomical heart model in a junk store just west of...

I'm never quite sure why I feel the urge to create a still life around a specific object. For my painting, In search of the muse (shown...