“I developed a thirst for great art, but it wasn’t until I was 20 that I finally visited my first museum, the Prado in Madrid. There, in 1968, my interest was caught by the paintings of Luis de Morales, a 16th-century artist from the harsh Extremadura region of Spain. Morales was a Mannerist, like El Greco or Parmigianino, who painted very graceful figures with long necks and limbs. He did a magnificently smooth sfumato modelling. But the effect that impressed me the most was a fine line that he applied around all of his figures. He didn’t need those illustrative lines, but they really made his figures ‘pop’ off the background.” PaintingPhotographyLas VegasContemporary ArtArtists LifeArtist QuotesJames StanfordShimmering ZenMojave DesertLuis De Morales Author:James Stanford
“While I began my career as a painter in the early 1980s, I became increasingly curious about the possibilities promised by digital tools - so I switched my traditional media for computer equipment. Digital Camera, 2017” PaintingPhotographyLas VegasContemporary ArtArtists LifeArtist QuotesArtistic VisionDigital ArtJames StanfordShimmering Zen Book:Shimmering Zen Source: Shimmering Zen