Boulevard Lights, Paris

I’m a great believer in the importance of first impressions. That’s one reason why Boulevard Lights, Paris is so dear to me: its the first print in my new City Impressions Collection and the first release of his new Studio Impressions Collection. This new collection is an expression of my passion for color and the way natural light affects the subject.

The City of Lights has been a springboard to my imagination even before the first of my many visits there. You see, my mother had a print on her wall – an energetic, dazzling lit Paris as seen by a 19th Century street painter – that captivated me as a child. So it seemed natural to launch my first impressionistic series by honoring the art of such giants as Beraud, Cortes, Galien-LaLoue, with a celebration of the city that has inspired master artists of every era.

I have enjoyed such a bustling vision of light and color in one of my journeys to Paris – I just couldn’t tell you exactly where or when. Because of this, Boulevard Lights, Paris exists for me in the ethereal world between experience and imagination that we call memory. And perhaps it is just as well, because somewhere in the heart of everyone who daydreams is an imaginary memory of Paris.