The greatest lessons about art, I learned on the street.

Thirty seven years of art shows, trains the eye.

What is quality, what is art. I can see very well.

Starting at thirteen with my Dad, a toolmaker and an inventor, I learned I could do anything by practice and persistence. I have been a toolmaker of children's toys for thirty seven years. In those years, I watched the line and it trained my eye.

Under a six year tutelage of Auseklis Ozols who was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, inspired by the model of Thomas Eakins, Ozol gave regiment in the traditions of the great renaissance painters, Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Buonarroti, Titian, Tintoretto, Bellini, Botticelli, Caravaggio, and Raphael

 

Now I can paint. The Academy gave me that freedom of expression. The freedom to capture what I want to express visually. To really get it out, to express what is in the soul is my life long dream. Pigment, the line, the expression, all dimensions of the soul. Where am I headed. That will be my fate in the canvas.

Strong, gutsy colors of emotion lend avenues to the moment and the feeling that is captured in a painting. The lines just point the way.

Caricatures of human nature are represented in flashes of light and darkness, confusing minds in what is really happening or better yet what is really interesting.

I paint with my hands and fingers, sometimes the brush, but mostly with my mind.

Interestingly enough, only you, the individual can determine the viability of what is to tell the story, the condition, and the meaningfulness of our civilization and our time, for it is the craft and the art that you treasure that will survive to tell the story.

Harry Callicott Griffith , Artist, Woodworker, Sculptor, Painter, and Pastelist