There are potential paintings around us all the time. If we close our eyes and let the images float by, we could grab any one of a number of those images and call it a painting. With our eyes open, anywhere that we are, it’s likely that we could find an interesting painting if we just looked at something, found an intriguing angle and put a frame around it. In my paintings I like to pretend that I’m putting a frame around one of those images that we see with our eyes closed, or at least I like to use it as an inspiration. Kurt Tazelaar