Art has always been a part of the artist's life-his earliest memories are as a young boy working diligently at his drawing table. His artistic life, then to now, has been a journey to what he ultimately found in painting—freedom of expression, a search for meaning, and a passion for creating.
M.T. works primarily with oil on board. His primary focus now is plein air painting and prefers to work directly from life to continuously train his eye to see and translate the unlimited variety in nature.
The artist has his studio in Eastern North Carolina.
"There is a mood to how an object or scene is presented. Every brushstroke is laid down with this one intention—to emulate the soul’s disposition. Whether it’s a scene that I happen to stumble upon, or one that I forcibly create, the desire to portray this inner moodiness is always paramount.
Of course I am always responding to my personal propensities for color and shape, my attraction to the light, affection for the subject these all demonstrate my “loves”, as it were. But within each of these, guiding my presentation of all of these, is the overriding, singular power of the mood of the soul.
This quality, relied upon, becomes my voice and is formed from the beautiful, bittersweet mystery of life that occupies me, that overwhelms the greater part of me, and that looks for expression in everything I see.
