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I AM USUALLY DRAWN TO PORTRAITURE in my studio practice, but recently I wanted a subject that might push me in a different direction and challenge me. The answer came, unexpectedly, from something as

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Connections are perhaps the least obvious of what I consider to be the three most important aspects of painting. You won’t often see chapters in books titled connections, but the same thing will crop