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When I met Syrai and her parents at an art festival in 2013, I was impressed with her beauty and regal bearing. However, in painting her I struggled with the challenge of maintaining the purity of the subject and not making the foreground and background so strong or so weak that I lost her in the surrounding composition. A fabric artist and friend, Sandy Kephart came to the rescue and helped me work through some of the issues. I hope you like the result as much I do.

Before becoming a full-time fine artist, I had a long and successful career as a lawyer and legal educator. But in the end, I came back to that which has been the enduring force in my life: fine art. I attended Cooper School of Art while in my early twenties. Even while practicing and teaching law, I continued to paint and develop my unique style. My paintings are largely based upon people who I've known or have met. I paint in pastels, oils, and watercolors. But pastels are my favorite! In what I call my Nubian Series I draw my subjects with soft pastel and use different mixed media to bring them to life. I use traditional African cloth and contemporary materials to separate figure from ground and liberate the subject from the...