First Paintings

The first paintings I did at Window Studio where actually not portraits; they were reflections in a window of a flower shop that I saw in St. Petersburg, Russia last summer. Creating them allowed me to speak with the people who came in to Window Studio about the way that I’ve used windows and their reflections as a way to include more in a picture than what appears immediately on the surface. In these paintings, images of workers during the Russian Revolution are incorporated. Several people I spoke to were interested in the way that oil paint can be used transparently in layers.