Puerto Rico Golf Series

While playing the East Course at Dorado, a humbling experience, the great natural beauty struck us. The Robert Trent Jones course immaculately groomed, was the Invitational Women’s PGA the next day.I can paint this, I said out loud. Leroy Neiman who “owned” golf and most sporting art for that last half century is figuratively and literally dead. He was a gifted artist who unfortunately sold out to commerce pandering to the Vegas crowd for quick riches. He Made it his way, but not ours say all the good artists in the world.

Stealing (good artists steal,  bad artists borrow-Picasso) from artists as diverse as the Bay Area Figurative painter Elmer Bischoff  and Expressionists-Emil Nolde,  an approach was formed.

Deep skies, abstracts line work, working the figure if at all, not at the moment of glory of the big back swing or  “putt of glory” . Look the other way, one idea being the highly charged moment of setting the ball at the first tee box. Everyone is watching.Will this be the big moment or an awful skittering off in the woods every golfer dread.

Unless you can block everyone out like the scene with Harry Varden scene in The Greatest Game Ever Played where the crowds disappear, other golfers, the trees, everything vanishes but the green at the end of the hole.The deep sunsets and wind charged sky over the Caribbean coastline play large at this course.  We walked away rich in imagery , not so rich on the scorecard. A good day.