A large part of my painting has centered on beautiful women. They've been interesting and profitable as subjects of visual art. I painted many of them for two main reasons: I like how they look, and they were easy to sell to others. Auction houses can always find a bidder for a painting of an attractive woman. This has been true for hundreds of years, and no doubt will be true in the distant future.
But at this stage in my development as an artist I no longer feel the need to paint pictures of beautiful women. I'm not even sure that beautiful art is my goal today. Or if it is, then it's a very different kind of beauty that I'm after.
I'm now trying to reveal an overlooked style of beauty in our contemporary world. For example, the appeal of a typical urban environment that surrounds us. But abstracted.
Half asleep at the wheel. In our daily fog. Beauty exists even there. But hidden.