Danny Folkman
About
Painting, particularly outdoors, allows me to break away from the world for a few hours and experience my subject first-hand. My goal is always to achieve a painterly realism with a heightened sense of reality to accurately capture the mood of a place as I've experienced it, rather then just painting what I see.
I've been painting and drawing for as long as I can remember, and haven't attended any formal art school. Instead, I prefer to learn directly from the source by taking workshops with masters artists around the world.
Being born and raised in New Jersey- a landscape and climate similar to England, (maybe not quite as cloudy) I quickly fell in love with the West during a family vacation to California in 2015. It was my first time seeing mountains in real life, and the diversity of the landscape along the coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles was unlike anything I'd ever seen. It was the neon lights and laid-back lifestyle of Southern California that captured my heart, and that's where I've since made my home. I'm grateful that every day I get to wake up in the place I love to paint.
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Person
I don't know if I could pick a single person, but overall, the rich history, architecture and landscapes of the US, particularly the West Coast, continue to be my biggest inspiration. I sound like a broken record now, but there's truly no place like Southern California. The quality of light here is unmatched anywhere I've ever been, and the landscape has anything and everything an artist could ask for - natural and manmade.
Place
Los Angeles, California. There is a certain magic in the air here that has never faded for me since I was first introduced to this place years ago. Perhaps part of that is because we've grown up seeing it in the movies, and so it quite literally feels like living in a movie set every day. But most of the people here are active in the arts in some capacity, and have come here to follow a dream, and that energy exists everywhere you go. It's also the most visually-stimulating place I've ever been, and as a painter, I think most of us are clearly visually-stimulated people. The palm-lined streets, distant hills, art deco and Spanish style architecture and those infamous SoCal sunsets are irresistible to paint.
Object
Object? That's a tough one. I'm not sure that you'd count it as an object, but the freeway is perhaps my greatest love. Not only do I find them visually compelling with their bold shapes and sharp edges, it's what they represent that I identify with the most- and that's the open road. Freedom, possibility, and exploration. What waits beyond the horizon to be discovered. I consider myself a wanderer by heart, and so I feel very much at home in my car, windows down, music blasting, on my way to who knows where. As long as it's not where I started. I don't want to imagine what might become of me if I didn't have a change of scenery every so often.
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