I hope you enjoy the selection of paintings on display here.

Folks sometimes ask me why I decide to make a specific painting. There is an instant of recognition that something I’ve observed could and must become a painting. These moments come as unexpected gifts, as if I suddenly found a pearl lying on a beach. I’ve come to realize that what arrests my attention has several ingredients, the most important being a quality of light that evokes an emotion akin, perhaps, to feelings that can come from poetry. Also, I am drawn to a scene that has an underlying sense of geometry and combination of colors that I judge to contain the possibility of delicious harmonies.

A work of art does differ from the way we brush our teeth before bedtime in important ways. First, not should have its genesis from a specific insight (or the hint of an insight) and it must finally exhibit an element that is not routine. There needs to be a moment of surprise in any work, something that grabs the viewer (first of all, the maker) buy the collar and won't let him go.

- Wolf Kahn