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For me, painting the world that I live in is a way to re-create it and possess it in a loving, sympathetic way.  My approach to painting is to build up marks and brushstrokes that become an image which cannot avoid reflecting my emotional response to what I see.  And hopefully this aggregation of paint positively affects the viewer as well, while it also resembles what I am looking at.  My middle initial H is for “Henri”.  So, amusingly, I’ve always been conscious of being Robert Henri Lafond.  The painter Robert Henri wrote, "Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond two pretty colors over there.  Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit." 

I attended the Boston Museum School, and have an undergraduate degree in Art History (summa cum laude) from Princeton University where I studied under the elegant abstract painter Esteban Vicente.  I paint predominantly landscapes and cityscapes in oils and pastels, both in the studio and plein air, concentrating on the Berkshires and Brooklyn.  Learn more and see more at my art blog: markandremark.blogspot.com.