| Fine artist, modern American realist, works primarily in oil, watercolor and pencil. Lives with family just west of Boston, Massachusetts. Son of American artist Helen R. Russell (b.1943) with whom he studied art. Studied with American artists Jack Goldstein and William Glasson. Is also is a musician and composer.
His visual art is characterized by his accurate eye and dedicated draftsmanship; his bold colors and contrast based from natural light and nature; subjects matters of situational interest: children, the human form, portraits, landscapes and a personal penchant for sea, marine, beach and water scenes.
As a child he was inspired by depictive American realists: N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockefeller, Frederic Remington and Charles Russell.
Early on he was also particularly drawn to master draftsmen: Edgar Degas, Albrecht Durer, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, M.C. Escher and Thomas Eakins.
Other artists that strongly contributed further personal inspiration and influence:
American masters: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Mary Cassett, James Whistler, William Merritt Chase, Gilbert Stuart and Georgia O’Keefe.
European masters: (including pre and post impressionism and expressionism) Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Henri Fatin-Latour, Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.
Classic masters: Diego Velazquez, Leonardo DaVinci, Rembrandt van Rijn.
Modern masters: Larry Rivers, Chuck Close, Robert Rauchenberg, Isamu Noguchi. |
