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Each painting is an experience in the moment. If I were painting a rose, would the rose be from the past or the present? These paintings are pictorial memoirs of characters that I portrayed in films from the 1960s that are now cult classics . The experience of painting these pictures was a three-way dialogue between the actress, the character, and my vision as the painter, using myself as an archetype from a previous image. I entered into an altered state to capture the essence of the women I played. This mysterious experience of recapturing the characters in my films may hint at the torment and longing that I personally faced in those times, and perhaps bring into remembrance for the observer of these images the innocence, the anguish, and the complexity present in the consciousness of that era.
PORTRAITS OF ROXY FROM THUNDER ROAD
PORTAITS OF TRUDY FROM FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER
PORTRAITS OF MISTRESS SHORR FROM THE TOWER OF LONDON
PORTRAITS OF THE GHOST HELENE FROM THE TERROR
PORTRAITS AND MASKS OF THE ACTRESS