About the Artist

Frank grew up in Europe and apprenticed with the Italian master painter Renato Casaro in the ’90s. In the ’80s and ’90s, Frank worked as a professional illustrator for video cover sleeves.

He strives to create timeless art in both oil and water media, and works in a direct, loose style influenced by the Old World Masters and Impressionists. He lived for three years in the south of France and has painted on location in many countries around the world.

Frank is an award-winning artist and Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society (AIS) and the American Watercolor Society (AWS) in New York. He is a juried Artist member of the prestigious California Art Club. Frank conducts workshops and classes locally and at the national and international levels.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The Artist Statement is as impossible as the verbal description of a classical symphony or a moving song. I like the idea of conveying a subjective, emotional response to the natural world.

Painting should go deeper than copying nature as it is. It should be a personal response and a characterization of what is before us and in harmony with it. I try to understand a scene, but not intellectually. I can paint it how it is, that’s easy. The interpretation of the thing that’s underneath—what gives it life—I’d like to find. The energy that makes it. In essence I am trying to paint what cannot be painted.

Atmosphere and light are just the first steps. As shapes dissolve in patterns of value and light, the painting becomes more a poetic statement than a literal representation.

Painting is my meditation, my refuge. It exists in a timeless state—an ego-less zone in which I feel whole, as though life actually makes sense. One day I may be able to paint something of significance.