ARTIST BIO

"Art provides me with unending opportunities to make a fool of myself,    in that, there is no doubt of my success."

Mr. Paduch works in various medias: oils, watercolor, pastel, ink and graphite.   He produces a considerable amount of work.

The abstract work has recently been of increasing interest, most of it is a commentary of events, spirits, and darkness.

The figure and landscape works also have a taste for the melancholy and design element.  The drawing and painting is quite varied.

Born 1940 in New York City, Paduch has been an artist from childhood and continues working daily at his studio in Casselberry, Florida.  He studied art at The Art Students League of New York.  His work has appeared at various art galleries and showings.  
 
 Artist's Comments:
 
I've been an artist as far back as I can remember, mostly self-taught, some classes along the way.  Painting is unending preoccupation (with god knows what).  All these unending intellectual explanations probably have some truth, but it is vastly overdone.  Artists are not that smart.

Art is usually a source of misery for its maker.  An old artist, John Maxwell, in one of my classes told me to "shut up and paint", that was good advice.  Mr. Maxwell did many of the old Colliers Magazine covers in the 40's and 50's and was a highly accomplished draftsman.  I do my work as best as I can.  I am confident over the years that I have made some good pictures.  I have done other things along the way, nothing special.

My interest in the "ballet culture" began in the early 60's, and then I left them - well not entirely.  In 1998 I started with the Orlando Ballet (then Southern Ballet Theater) and they allowed me to observe and record their regimend and their dress rehearsals.  Many of the players have changed, I always hate it when they leave.  It is an extremely intense environment.  Whatever drives them is amazing. 

Painting and drawing has been my unrelenting companion.