Library

Beloved Artists

Who taught me to see.

The masters and contemporary artists who have influenced the way I see.

Open the shelf →
A stack of artist monographs beside brushes and paint tubes
A botanical study of a lily in bloom

Learning that transforms how we see.

From the Renaissance rooms to painters working now — these are the hands and eyes I study, and the traditions that taught artists to see for centuries.

I return to them the way one returns to a teacher.

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

Martin Johann Schmidt

John William Waterhouse

J. M. W. Turner

J. Kirk Richards

Richard Schmid

Daniel Gerhartz

Eugène Delacroix

Claude Monet

Raphael

Rembrandt

The more you consider beauty, the more you begin to see it everywhere.

— Anonymous —