As many of you probably already know, despite the funny circumstances of our first encounter, Mr. Schindler became one of my most important collectors and a good friend over the years.

Since he just comes by for a visit to my studio, which I normally keep private, he was always one of the first to see new paintings. His collection well documents how my work evolved over time.

For some 30 years now, I've been woorking on developing a new kind of reverse glass painting, to create more "transparency" and depth with this beautiful old technique. One of my approaches is to use graphite pencil and watercolor, but that is very hard to control on glass. So, eventually I sarted experimenting with oils. The very first piece "Sunday Afternoon" done this way became part of the Schindler colection.

For my glass originals I always make a hand made frame. What is interesting about this one, is the way, the glass is mounted. Not "behind" the frame, as one would normally do, but fit in a very thin tin profile and then connected to the front of the actual frame.