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Dear Edgar,
Thanks so much for the welcome. I'm overwhelmed by the responds from all you great guys. It's like coming home in a sense. The community of realist- or portrait painters in Denmark is so small that you can count them on a hand or two, and we all seem to fighting for the same jobs. And there are not many of them out there. But I have hopes for Denmark...They seem to be coming around concerning the realist genre. More and more are interested and actually buying!
I'm glad you like JOC's portrait. He was a very special man with a most incredible vision. He build his own opera house in the middle of the dessert! And made it one of the most fruitful artistic venues in American Culture. I've sung there fifteen summers and come to love this rugged and interesting country. The light is incredible there and I always painted when ever I had the time for it. John was very shy and at the same time a very powerful man, and I hope this is what comes through his portrait. The piano taking up so much space in the painting is of course the overpowering urge to make music that dominated his life. The score is a Strauss opera which was his favorite composer.
By the way: My web site is now also in English for my American Friends!!
All the best to you and greetings from beautiful Rome
Mikael
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