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With few exceptions, my experiences with art teachers failed to inspire a desire to pursue a formal education in art. I was interested in making my own discoveries, and figured my efforts should be focused on what it was that made me unique and to gain, through practice, the ability to express through a given medium, my original voice.
So off I went, following wherever an impulse would lead me, my time and energy were spent leaping from one inspiration to the next. Though lacking in structure, this made for a rich collage of experiments and experiences, and I felt the things I were discovering were truly my own. Through my own unique lens of perception, I was drawing from nature, from my imagination, and from whatever else happened to move me, I was all over the place. Ultimately I realized I couldn’t continue in so many different directions and attain a high degree of fluency in them all. I was in need of some kind of foundation, and fortunately found myself pointed in the general direction of the Italian Renaissance. There I landed in the midst of something fundamental and original. These were the works, these were the artists from whom I’d learn, who would come to form the foundation of my education.
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