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My art reflects my lifelong interest in plant life, in particular tropical plants.   I have had no artistic training and seek only to capture some of the infinite elegance and drama of color and form which abound in nature.   I do not attempt any artistic style but try to reproduce what I see as precisely as possible.   Elements which fascinate me for their unexpected charm become the focal point around which I build a picture.   I grow a small number of tropicals, particularly bromeliads, and I am the steward of the bromeliad collection at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, University of...more
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Is It a Drawing or a Painting?

May 26th, 2011

Is It a Drawing or a Painting? by P. Goff Phil: You refer to your pictures as paintings, but you’re using colored pencils. So aren’t they really drawings? Art: Well, I know people often feel that if you do a picture with pencil or pen it’s a ...