Charles Fine Arts call for “Hopper Reimagined” during a time where the Cape Ann Museum is having it’s Edward Hopper Exhibition. While on a trip to France Hopper was inspired by Edgar Degas’s daring painting “Interiors” where there was a patch of light on the floor.

Living artists who have been inspired in their own works with Hoppers use of light and story. I as an artist with my work do not study other artists and build from what they have done. I prefer to stay organic to what my own instincts are attracted to in the moment, and follow that journey of discovery. Is it possible somehow when we all look at art we are subconsciously influenced? I do love great art. I have a few favorite artists. I don’t intentionally copy what has been done. I don’t want to create like another artist intentionally. I just want to be myself.

This photograph was done prior to the call. I was in my home going to bed late, the house was filled with exterior lights from the street and neighbors homes casting light into my interior. I noticed the light one night on my lamp near my bed, and it led me to investigate each room in the house with how the light came in created shapes on the walls, dressers, beds and floors. There was a full moon a few nights later and that was another set of images I captured. I also in years past captured light in the early morning as it came into the house.