I am an artist living/working in Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn, New York. My specialty is traditional oil portraits and nude paintings of women.

For portraits, I appreciate the works by French painters from Rococo period, such as Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun or Jean-Marc Nattier. They often painted beautiful aristocratic women with soft edges in luxurious costumes/settings. My goal is to create portraits that are more beautiful and youthful than the actual sitters but still capture the individual characters.

For nude paintings, I admire the styles of Boucher and Renoir, with soft, idealized beauty of youthful women in peaceful and romatic ways.

As I got older, I started to appreciate more bright paintings with less dramatic contrast. I think women in paintings look more beautiful that way. It goes well with the inherent nature of women which is very bright and soft. Finding female models with blonde hair & blue eyes with light skin became very important for me.

The real world is full of violence and economic uncertainty. In my art, I am interested in creating the heavenly paradise as I imagine. It's the world filled with love and beauty.

Terry