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Some talk about style in painting. In representational or semi-representational art, the artist may do something completely outside the norm as one occasionally sees in modern art museums. But when artists paint the same subject in a representational fashion, each intuitively portrays the same subject differently. In my works I do not pay attention to style yet intuitively I lean towards certain favorite color combinations, usually vivid, that appear on and on in my paintings or the choice of compositions that I often employ, or surface quality appropriate to subject matter often show in my work—the appeal of thin wash or impasto or a combination. My only hope is that somehow there is a continuity in my work that when viewers see hundred works together in a variety of subjects or mediums, my paintings won’t appear like many different artists have done them. This continuity shows up in our works when we paint thousands. It’s akin to our handwriting that we may be shackled with whether we like it or not.