KAPAJEN, LLC
PORT ORANGE, FLORIDA

I frequently work from photos, and as sources I have a rich trove of family pictures plus the many photos which can be downloaded from the Internet. Photos are necessary because I often portray people who are far distant in miles or years. But my goal is to provide a different interpretation, not just to reproduce, so I usually shift the painting’s elements around and introduce new ones from multiple sources. Thus, most of my paintings contain representational elements, but may easily stray from reality. While I painted off and on during my career in business, my painting began in earnest when I retired in 1997. Since my paintings are usually representational, it should not be surprising that I also use graphics software to create computer-based art, compositing images from multiple sources. I find that my painting and my computer art help each other, both in composition and color-mixing. But I put that interest aside, getting a bachelors and masters in business at Carnegie Tech, until the early 1980s when I returned to painting as a part-time diversion from the stresses of my job. I lived in Pittsburgh, and was able to attend classes at both the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and at Touchstone Center in Uniontown. When I retired in 1997 I was able to devote considerably more time to studying drawing, painting and print-making at DBCC (now DSC) and at the Art League of Daytona Beach.