About me
I have no formal training in art, but lots of training in biomedical research. I am a research scientist, used to work on new drug discovery for more than 20 years in a pharmaceutical company. I am currently a professor in a pharmacy school, teaching wonderful pharmacy and graduate students.
I approach painting as I approach science – careful observation, honest reporting, and solving technical problems in between. I learned mostly by reading books on painting techniques, going to art demostrations, and experimenting a lot, with lots of failures and many torn pieces of sometimes expensive paper.
I enjoy painting realistic images, purely esthetic and typically without intentional deeper meanings or emotions, other than the joy of beauty. I am particularly attracted to complicated patterns of shapes and textures, and easily become totally immersed in the process of planning, detailing, and overcoming technical hurdles. Hence, it takes me a long time to finish a painting, often 40 to 80 hours of hands-on, and many months from the first stroke till the reluctant finish. I am thus a painfully low-productivity technician. Once in a while, I wanted to break out from this “tight” realism style and tried to become freer and more spontaneous.
