Introducing the largest canvas painting of my career, “Turned Myself to Face Me” — a 52.5″X94.5″, Acrylic on Belgian Linen partial collage-painting portrait of David Bowie.
This work began on January 10, 2025, and was signed on November 2, 2025. Bowie tested everything I knew about painting, and became the catalyst for significant creative and professional growth.
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I’ve wanted to paint this for well over a decade, but I needed time to discover the right approach. Over the past year, I began wondering — what would the Hollywood Sign look like as a giant neon? There was precedent — at the turn of the millennium, the sign was ablaze in color — minus the tubes. So, with this as a general guide… I began to reinvent… on a large scale.
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