Painted LightWinner, Gold Award, Texas Association of Museums Wilder Awards, 2011 I begin with a silver photographic image, a kind of evidence. Then I paint on this in many transparent layers of oil paint and pencil. If I am lucky, the media combine and become enmeshed, a curious union of what was real with my own exaggerations and embellishments, so I can show how beautiful it all isthe light, the form, the texture, and colorbecause I am a sensualist, and this is