Maurice Sapiro.

Born in New Jersey (1932), Maurice L Sapiro lives with his wife in Connecticut.
He paints landscapes, still lives, and dreamscapes.
His work includes photography, oil and water-based paintings, ceramics, handmade musical instruments. And others too numerous to list in a readable fashion.

Fascinated by ‘the moment when natures fuses light and air, and creates a work of art’, Sapiro captures the ethereal, spiritual, magical tones, light and mood of nature. In delicately and subtly applied glazes, his images explore the moods of morning and evening on marshes and rivers of the area.

Still lifes evoke a sense of both mystery and beauty in their hints at abstraction, and occasionally Sapiro takes on the human figure with an eye for the exotic and arresting character.

He has published articles and books on clay form modeling methods, built his own harpsichord, taught himself a high level of color photography and did his own color processing.

He has dabbled in inventing and in optics as well, all the while, however, continuing to experiment with painting in watercolor and in oil.

So says Antiques And The Arts Weekly.

Mr Sapiro's work can be found at his website.